author of IF I CAN GIVE YOU THAT (out now!) and THE GHOST OF YOU (out September 3rd!). he/him, 24, repd by @petejknapp.
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ALT A light blue graphic titled “27 Books to Support LGBTQIA+ Youth Mental Health.” Beneath the title is a doodle of an open book with flowers growing out of its pages and a small watering can sprinkling water on the pages. On the right-hand side of the graphic is an illustration of a person with long, blue hair. Their eyes are closed in a peaceful expression and the top of their head appears to be open, with bright pink flowers growing out of it.
ALT A light blue graphic that says, “Announcing Our New Care Package Initiative” at the top. The body text reads as follows: “According to Teen Vogue, the Trevor Project reported receiving 200% more calls this past week from LGBTQIA+ youth feeling fear and anxiety regarding the 2024 Presidential Election and its consequences. In response, WNDB is committing to sending care packages to LGBTQIA+ youth programs and resource centers across the country. Care packages will contain queer books exploring mental health or queer joy, bookmarks, WNDB swag, and information about accessing mental health resources.” On the right-hand side of the graphic is an illustration of a person with long, blue hair. Their eyes are closed in a peaceful expression and the top of their head appears to be open, with bright pink flowers growing out of it.
ALT A light blue graphic titled “Queer YA Fiction about Mental Health.” There are five book covers shown and the titles are as follows: “Forever is Now” by Marima J. Lockington, “If I Can Give You That” by Michael Gray Bulla, “Beating Heart Baby” by Lio Min, “Just Another Epic Love Poem” by Parisa Akhbari, and “The Luis Ortega Survival Club” by Sonora Reyes. At the bottom of the graphic is an illustration of pink, yellow, and red flowers with blue stems, and a blue watering can on the right-hand side appearing to water the flowers with droplets shaped like small, pink hearts.
ALT Cover image of The Ghost of You by Michael Gray Bulla.
ALT The terrorist Israeli occupation, after half a year, is still insisting on entering Rafah, which is the last city that still contains most of the population of the Gaza Strip. 80% of the Gaza Strip is destroyed and suffers from continuous military invasions, the movement of the Israeli army, besieging hospitals, commit massacres, destroy and blow up residential neighborhoods. And besieging the population and starving them. The terrorist occupation is committing these crimes in front of the world, and is trying to have more time to destroy the hopes of the displaced to return and kill them with hunger and disease, and make the world get used to what is happening in Gaza and reduce media coverage and solidarity with Palestine, in addition to causing more destruction and strengthening the presence of the Israeli terrorists in Gaza in preparation for stealing the land. Be smarter than them, and do not leave us to be killed and forgotten. *April 15 is a day of global strike*..
ALT Poem: “writing in the genocide” by Omar Sakr Some will mutter This is not your genocide To write poems about Not your relatives Killed and killed and killed— Thinking being Arab Or of the ummah means I am writing From the position of the dead. Oh habibi how I wish that were true. I am writing from the trigger Of empire. It was not this poem That paid for the blast, but another.
ALT Poem: Legitimacy in the genocide Elusive as angels before the first bomb And as common as sky thereafter Legitimacy proliferates In the childish eyes of corpses, Incubators brim with legitimacy Demolished schools spell out legitimacy This ugly magic, maker of death! Soldiers dance on graves legitimately We are all dying legitimately And the judges are pleased.
