trans palestinian poetry 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️

blood orange is a collection of poetry published in november by mx yaffa (they/she), a disabled, autistic, trans, queer, muslim palestinian. in this collection, they write about the genocide, the diaspora, queerness and pinkwashing, and indigeneity. one stanza from the poem stars keeps coming back to me:

a child stares at the same stars 

but theirs comes 

to meet them 

phosphor filling 

their lungs

i encourage everyone to read this and talk about it as a way to resist the narrative that queer and trans palestinians don’t exist, or that they exist but are unloved. let’s continue to push back against pinkwashing—our liberation is connected. 

TWs genocide, death, murder, pinkwashing