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Mejdulene Bernard Shomali is a queer Palestinian poet and associate professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Williams College. She is the author of Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives and agriculture of grief: prayers for my father’s dementia.
In honor of last week’s reading, we’re thrilled to present two poems by Mejdulene Bernard Shomali that narrate the precarity of Palestinian American safety and satirize the absurd lexical tactics that the Western media deploys to justify genocide.
