Ayesha

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Joy is an act of resilience. | My books: “Love, InshAllah” & “Salaam, Love” | 🍉🍉🍉

Red yellow blue stripe cassette cover for The Police Synchronicity album
A beautiful rosy dawn over the hills of San Francisco on the first day of fasting for Ramadan.
Self portrait: brown woman wearing tortoiseshell sunglasses, a silver fringe necklace, pink dress, & silver ring with the caption “spill color where the world only sees black & white.”
Newport ballroom scene
My youngest sister’s grave, covered in rose petals.
When we were four—my sisters and mom in happier times. Four South Asian heritage women stand together facing the camera in soft golden sunlight.
My beautiful mother holding my youngest sister in the late 70s. A curly raven haired woman holds a toddler with short raven curls. The woman’s eyes are half closed looking off camera to the right. The child looks solemnly at the camera.
Two pink camellias, one red and white striped one and two red ones float in the still pool of a circular concrete water urn. The water reflects tree branches, sky, and sunlight.
Red poppy with two busy bees
Two bees alight on a gorgeous purple flower
A frog and toad converse under a toadstool. “Frog?" Toad asked. "Yes?" replied Frog. "Can we spend the rest of our lives dunking on Elon Musk?" "Oh yes," Frog replied. "We must always dunk on Nazis. And it is always better to dunk on Nazis with a friend." "Good," said Toad. "I like doing things together." officialsadbeige Everything is better with a friend Credit: + Arnold Lobel (illustration from Frog and Toad); @officialsadbeige (parody text)
Bees gather in the center of a white poppy
Selfie wearing Hamilton beanie and Rise Up t-shirt using a prismatic filter
Me, a brown woman leaning against an intricate terracotta colored railing at the Chinese garden in Huntington Gardens. In the background: a large pond, traditional architecture with upturned roofs edges , a mix of palm trees and evergreens against a sunny, cloud streaked sky.
A six petaled white and purple flower with yellow accents against a background of greenery and sidewalk.
A blossoming pink magnolia flower against a blue December sky
User iamivy05 on Ex said: my therapist advised, "learn to calm your own storm instead of venting to others. it may feel therapeutic to let it all out, but you reinforce negative thoughts. it’s no one’s job but yours to pull yourself out of your problems. journal, meditate, exercise,and release." felt that
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ latest book “The Message” on a gold geometric mat and hand-painted ombre blue table.
"You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. 'Floods' is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, that valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place. It is emotional memory." - Toni Morrison
Text superimposed on photo of bouquet against background: Eid Mubarak, my loves! May your worship & fasts be accepted. May your Eid be joyful with loved ones. May you draw ever closer to the Beloved in love & desire. Allahumma ameen.
The aforementioned book open to the quoted page with a bookmark depicting Princess Leia as a Mughal ruler.
Colander shadow showing partial eclipse in San Francisco on kitchen floor. Superimposed text: We didn’t have eclipse glasses, but we were able to see it on the floor through the colander just now!
A pink magnolia flower refracting light at its tips from the sun
The_Great_Tabby on TikTok: a trans Black person with shorn hair and a single silver earring in the left ear, wearing a pink KN95 mask, black & blue keffiyah, and blue sweatsuit stands in front of a white SUV and looks directly at the camera. Two text highlights: “Spreading diseases is colonizer behavior” and “Every Covid infection damages your body.”
A maroon magnolia blossom is still tightly furled against branches laden with younger, furry buds. Sunlight pierces the canopy. Spring is coming.
Drawing of author Mira Jacob talking to a white male doctor: MJ: I TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF THIS FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT. DO YOU THINK A POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECT OF COVID ON PERIMENOPAUSAL BROWN WOMEN IS AN INCREASING URGENCY TO DEMAND AND INCITE A REVOLUTION FOR TRUE EQUITY FOR ALL IN THIS LIFETIME? MD: WHAT?
Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov For Americans to truly understand Israel's attack on Palestinians in Gaza, you have to put their war crimes in proportion to our population. Which would be: 2,404,168 Americans killed 6,326,758 Americans wounded 64,800,000 homes destroyed 284,704,123 Americans displaced
Palestinian author Hala Alyan’s novel “Salt Houses” against a San Francisco skyline
The Duchess speaks in a sumptuous gold and red drawing room at her castle
San Francisco’s 4-mile long laser rainbow projected in front of the Ferry Building, which is itself lit up with the words: “Stop Bombing Children. Ceasefire Now.” The back of a person wearing a backpack and looking at the laser/building is in the foreground.
Pinkwashing Tweet by Israel 7มาบ' @ Israel 中然 The first ever pride flag raised in Gaza Yoav Atzmoni who is a member of the LGBTQ+ community wanted to send a message of hope to the people of Gaza living under Hamas brutality. His intention was to raise the first pride flag in Gaza as a call for peace and freedom. @ leekern13 Includes: Two photos depicting an IDF soldier holding a rainbow flag in front of tanks and destroyed buildings. The flag is inscribed with “in the name of love” in English, Arabic, & Hebrew.
Tweet via soulkhan hey, stupid liberals, do you think hamas was hiding in the incubators or are you ready to stop being fucking stupid 11/11/23
FREE BOOKS: I've uploaded my library on Palestine/Israel to the cloud, in digital form (mostly pdf & epub): a little over 1700 books. You can download any that interest you individually, or the whole library (about 13GB). And feel free to share this. Gray cat looking at book
A red poppy and yellow flowers against a white background on the cover of Hala Alyan’s novel “Salt Houses”
MICHELLE ALEXANDER, TA-NEHISI COATES, NATALIE DIAZ, NOURA ERAKAT, REV RASCHAAD HOGGARD, RASHID KHALIDI, MOHAMMED EL-KURD BUT WE MUST SPEAK ON PALESTINE AND THE MANDATES OF CONSCIENCE WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 1ST 3041 BROADWAY DOORS 6.15PM FOR 7PM START TICKETS FREE, NO RESERVATIONS + LIVESTREAMED @PALFEST
People chanting and raising arms and waving Palestinian flags Thousands of people participated in the "Stop the Genocide in Gaza" protest Saturday. | Michael Vatcheva for The Standard The crowd, which chanted various messages of solidarity with Palestine, hit the streets around 2 p.m. and made its way to the freeway about two-and-a-half hours later, stopping traffic as demonstrators danced, chanted and waved flags.
Dark blue cover with white origami cranes. Susan Ito’s memoir “I Would Meet You Anywhere”
The gold Dome of the Rock against a cloud and bird filled sky with the words: Never ever underestimate the power of dua! Dua between Asr and Maghrib on Jummah is mustajaab (answered). The Dua al-Nasiri, written by the renowned Moroccan Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Nasir was recited across Morocco during the French occupation. It was considered so powerful, and so inspired the Moroccan resistance, that the French banned its recitation in mosques. • You to Whose mercy one flees! You in Whom the one in need and distress seeks refuge!
Poet Mosab Abu Toha dressed in a black shirt and brown blazer stands smiling in front of a bookcase gazing into the camera.
A boy and an orange tabby cat sit side by side
Karoline Hjorth in the bushes, camouflaged with green branches. The words: “Dress for the job you want” appear above her.
Poop like a champion honey graham cereal box
From “The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity’s, Motherhood, & the Mind-Baby Problem” by Julie Phillips, highlighted text: It is also inspired by Toni Morrison's answer to the question of how she wrote her first novel: "I wrote a list of the things I had to do. I found sixty-three. Then I wrote another list of things I wanted to do. I found two—write and mother my children."
White background with black text. A pink border on the bottom of the square and gray birds flying at the top. "Okay," the young man challenged. "So what's the answer?" "There isn't one," I told him. "No answer? You mean we're just doomed?" He smiled as though he thought this might be a joke. "No," I said. "I mean there's no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. There's no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers-at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be." - Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future
Me, a Brown woman wearing a face mask, sun hat and block print Nesara dress on an oversized chair reading picture books.
Sinead Shuhada O’Connor in blue headscarf smoking a cigarette
Margaret Renkl’s “Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love & Loss” A bright yellow cover featuring a young girl’s profile silhouette filled with bright birds and green leaves.
A boy with a backpack jumps in the air at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, at sunset
The Natural Menopause Method by Karen newby
Drawing of a parent holding the hands of a toddler to help them walk. In their shadows, the abilities are reversed as a tall child takes the arm of an older parent with cane.
Sharp points on plastic acupressure discs on Shakti Mat
My brown and be-ringed hand holding a lengthy 5-minute read print out from the train station short story vending machine. The story is “Chifir” by Jesse Richmond
The black and orange cover of circe by madeline miller, with the former’s stylized face
A white platter holding a rainbow of ripe summer fruits with a bowl of almond butter in the center
Transcendence Coffee gulab jamun syrup
A bee on a lavender blossom
Two platters of cut fruits including watermelon, apples, strawberries, cherries, peaches, pears, plums, and mulberries.
A man smokes standing astride a minaret with more on the purple horizon. Cover of Cairo.
The above poem via Nathaniel Miller aka @/ClassyArabic
Chicken biryani with ghee fried cashews and pistachios.