Sameem

@sameemwrites.com

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Author of SciFi, SouthAsian/Muslim heritage. Work in Clarkesworld, PopSci, ApparitionLit. Sturgeon Award finalist. DC area based. sameemwrites.com (he/him)

“It’s like there was a time we were all lost, looking for somewhere to go. I guess what I’m saying is, sometimes you just gotta give things time to be lost, before they can be found.”
A conservation with Meta AI and it’s acknowledgment of its theft of content to train.
An excerpt from Toni Cade Bambara’s 1979 essay “What It Is I Think I’m Doing Anyhow”
“ It leads citizens to vote for men whom they do not trust, and to subscribe to principles in which they do not believe. It is often an obstacle to healthy political education and development. It tends to induce men to subordinate their real convictions for the mere idle purpose of rallying under a traditional party name to carry an election.... to go with a party which the voter thinks is fundamentally wrong or is headed entirely in the wrong direction, merely because the other party is worse, is not calculated to make for wholesome politics or for the ultimate benefit of the country.”
Copilot prompt in MS Word
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
They did not have to exist according to the rigid logics of how we understand (not-)Muslims to be. They were allowed to breathe on the page-more than that, they were allowed to live in the fullness of who they were.
Close up of a grey cat on a grey couch with the caption “Meow”
Scifi anthologies from the 1950s-1970s
Cover art for the 1970 book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
Tim Curry in the 1991 movie Oscar
Cover of The Tyranny of the Two Party System by Lisa Disch
The Nightward by RSA Garcia
Andy Goldsworthy‘s “Boulder” from the “Clay Houses” collection.
An excerpt from Audre Lorde’s 1980 essay Age, Race, Class and Sex: “ Today, with the defeat of ERA, the tightening economy, and increased conservatism, it is easier once again for white women to believe the dangerous fantasy that if you are good enough, pretty enough, sweet enough, quiet enough, teach the children to behave, hate the right people, and marry the right men, then you will be allowed to co-exist with patriarchy in relative peace, at least until a man needs your job or the neighborhood rapist happens along. And true, unless one lives and loves in the trenches it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.”