MOON TIDES  
JUNE 06, 2024 Volume 012
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Happy Pride, friends! 
 
I wanted to share this beautiful documentary I learned about this past week that challenges the pinkwashing that occurs by corporations or groups in an attempt to delegitimize standing in solidarity with Palestine. 
 
Cinema Fouad, shot in 1993, follows the story of Oscar Al-Halabiye, a Syrian trans woman who joined the Palestinian resistance to fight against the Israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. In the film, Al-Halabiye reflects on growing up in Aleppo, her desire to undergo gender reassignment surgery, and the loss of her partner, a fellow Palestinian resistance fighter. 
 
The documentary is a timely reminder of queer resistance and that our liberation struggles are so deeply intertwined, even decades later. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸
                                                                  
Shoes On. Eyes Open. 
 
-Sarah
 
weekly highlight—
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NYC friends, I hope you're able to attend our panel and embroidery workshop this coming Tuesday! The event is hosted by Lola Catero, founder of The Majority Group, and we’re partnering with Tala, the founder of Tala Barbotin Khalidy, a beautiful brand that works with Lebanese and Syrian artisans to revitalize local endangered craft techniques to challenge the perceptions of the Middle East and of handcraft through contemporary clothing designs.
 
We’ll chat about how resistance is inherent to both of our brand origins and Tala will guide us through an embroidery and meditation session. You can purchase a ticket here. Please note that the ticket covers the cost of all materials used in the workshop.
 
Come learn, reflect, and embroider with us! 👟👗🪡
 
Date & Time:
Tuesday, June 11th  | 6 to 8pm | doors open at 5:50pm
 
Location:
AM:PM GALLERY
108 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
 
 
WE'RE watching—
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I know, I know—I'm late with this one! But I'm finally starting it tonight! Who else has watched and what are your thoughts? 
 
For those who are unfamiliar, it's a TV reboot of the Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie movie of the same name. In this series, Donald Glover and Maya Erskine "play misfit unemployables who apply for jobs as assassins and find that the hardest part of their dangerous new lives as John and Jane Smith isn’t the body count — it’s having to pretend to be married."
 
I loved watching Maya Erskine in PEN15 and her film Plus One (a fun rom-com!), so I'm excited to see her in this performance. 
 
 
We're TALKING ABOUT—
QNS to the WRLD  THE GLOBAL RUNDOWN
     Run, don't walk. If I cancel a call with you, you know where to find me. 🥲
     I have so many thoughts but mainly that the MTA loves to scam and is always crying about a deficit. They honestly need to be investigated.
     Hmm I guess it has been a minute since our last booster shot. 🦠💉
     A leftwing climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, won the presidency with between 58.3% and 60.7% of the vote, according to a rapid sample count by Mexico’s electoral authority. 🇲🇽
In New Caledonia, Kanak People Are Defending Their Autonomy via Jacobin        I shared a bit of this decolonial struggle a few weeks back but this article goes more in depth into the colonial history and the latest growing tension on the island. (Note: the indigenous Kanaks call the land Kanaky) 🇳🇨 
 
 
We're lISTENING TO—
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I know we're all dealing with a million personal things while also watching our world on fire right now. But I did want to highlight what's happening in Sudan, as the situation has been widely ignored these past few months. 
 
Al Jazeera's podcast, The Take, walks us through the current grave situation and looming famine, more than a year after the war started. If the situation doesn't change, it is projected that 2.5 million people could die by September. Yet the international community has funded less than 15% of the aid needed and the Sudanese Diaspora is stepping up to help fund the gap. 
 
The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) has shared that if humanitarian aid isn't provided, we will see “widespread famine, mass displacement, increased child mortality, and heightened suffering for women and girls.”
 
An important listen. 🇸🇩
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