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fargo nissim tbakhi

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fargo nissim tbakhi

@YouKnowFargo

palestinian performance artist | TERROR COUNTER (2025) | ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. (2027) | Deep Vellum

Washington, DC

Joined January 2014

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fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
May 14, 2021
palestinians are reminding us that decolonization is not abstract. it is material. it is violent. it is not popular, it will be resisted and debated by the entire structures of the monstrous colonial world. and it is the only way forward, and it is the only path of life.
fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
Oct 25, 2023
every single mundane thing we do to live ought to be a reminder that those same daily activities have been systematically, brutally stolen from palestinians. carry that with you every moment for the rest of your life. and remember how many found and find ways to do them anyway
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fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
May 14, 2021
Replying to @YouKnowFargo
settlers live lives of death. built on death. death filling their mouths and lungs. producing and reproducing death. it is all they know and all they can think and all they will ever taste.
fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
Dec 28, 2017
she was a tide pod but he wasn't hungry ~rupi kaur
fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
Oct 20, 2017
this is sooooooo evil
fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
Jul 22, 2021
proud to announce i have decolonized poetry. it’s been a long hard journey— and i couldn’t have done it without my capital one credit card,
fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
Apr 14, 2020
poets are like “ars poetica in a double sestina ending in a triple sonnet crown composed of triptychs and when you read it with the rest of my poems it becomes one giant haibun winged with my mother’s eyeliner that morning she wept me into a ghazal”
fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
Nov 8, 2023
“from the river to the sea” is a speculative act of imagining that holds a wide range of liberatory possibilities/promises within it, and also sounds cool as hell and feels wonderful to scream
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fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
Nov 1, 2023
hard not to take this not as a failure of “international law” but as its logical function
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fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
Oct 30, 2023
cultural workers: we can use this and other principled commitments to pressure our organizations and institutions into joining. do they want to work with writers? then listen to what we’re saying, get in line and commit to boycott.
writersagainstthewarongaza.com
WRITERS AGAINST THE WAR ON GAZA
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fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
Dec 8, 2023
i wrote something about writing, “craft”, and what i think palestine requires of those who write in english from the imperial core in this hour of genocide. i hope that it might be useful
Protean Magazine
@proteanmag
Dec 8, 2023
Fargo Tbakhi (@YouKnowFargo) writes with a reflective essay on the role and duty of writing amidst a genocide. How do hegemonic priorities dictate style, content, and status? What can words do for Gaza, when words are also the vehicle of cruel ideology? proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/not…
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fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
Apr 13, 2019
nobody: white poets on twitter: friends, remember- your tender roots need to be given water :) find your sun :) stop moving youre a plant :) your feet should be in wet dirt and fertilizer at all times :) literally youre a plant :)
fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
Aug 13, 2023
enjoyed red white and royal blue? check out this one next!!
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fargo nissim tbakhi
@YouKnowFargo
Oct 25, 2023
Replying to @YouKnowFargo
i can’t do anything without knowing that it has been deprived, in so many intersecting ways, from palestinians across palestine. let that knowledge galvanize you towards doing everything you can to insist on our right to life. everything in your power. fight the fuck back
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