#22: Deixis Downlink
A monthly correspondence: November 2023
Deixis Journal Archive
Featured work by Rami Sinnawi
In Deep Thought: “Celebrating Colonialism”
Congratulations to history’s greatest gaslighters.
The oppressors. The initial minority. The settlers. The pillagers. The diseased pilgrims.
The land-grabbers. The pre-oppressed. The baby-killers. The vile men. The hate-filled.
The men who, when it is said to them, “Do not cause corruption on the earth,” respond, “We are but reformers”.
Observe them now looking deep into a mirror, with their pasts in the reflection.
Hear the news and see the lifeless bodies.
Feel your pockets emptied into criminal reserves.
Reserves owned by the same machine that orchestrates the desecration of mosques, the bombings of innocents, the generational hate.
It must be some sick joke - a dark irony - bad karma — the way they massacre unarmed foreign youth, only to fear for their children’s safety in schools.
Congratulations to the oppressors for their false peace.
Today, we remember their deeds.
Let them believe that they have won, and they might be, for the time being. But just like every tyrant in history, the reigning empire soon meets its day…
So until then, thoughts and prayers persist.
Deixis Book Club
Not a real book club (yet), just a bit about what we’re currently reading.
Halima recently read the book, The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart by Alice Walker
Chronicling aspects of her divorce from her white husband, Alice Walker writes lovingly of the past, her settings, and her beautiful daughter at therapy, who, similarly to Alice Walker and her husband, doesn’t know why the divorce happened to begin with. The book, then, which I believe to be entirely autobiographical, about Alice, and her love, transforms into ancestral visions(short stories) of love: between mother and child, woman and lovers, man and daughter, sisters and sisters. These stories, riveting as they were, felt deeply connected to who Alice was, and continues to portray. Alice says that, Love, in any circumstance, is confusing, and Why does it happen? Whatever the reason, it is not to be regretted. Doing honor to its title, this book made me laugh and hope. I encourage anyone with a heart to read it!
An Excerpt from The Way Forward by Alice Walker
“The more they try to make me not like you, the more lonely I feel.
That’s good, I said.
You’re a strange creature, though, she said.
Must be because of genes, I said.”
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