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🇵🇸 Trans Palestinian Fabulousness🍉 Wanted to be here for the thirst traps instead here fighting against genocide. Organizer Author 📚 LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA Oct 7 https://linktr.ee/mxyaffa

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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · Mar 18

I have far too much to say, way beyond my bodies ability right now.

So I'll say this: you can not end a ceasefire when fire was never ceased and you can not overthrow an empire by maintaining the status quo.

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 4h

30 SWANA books to look out for as 2025 starts to wrap up. We're thrilled to see @yaffasutopia.bsky.social's LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA in good company with titles by authors such as Leila Chatti, Anbara Salam, Aymann Ismail, and our very own Ata Nahai.

Thank you, Samia! @rawi-news.bsky.social

30 More SWANA Books in 2025: July-December Releases

Samia Saliba, 2025-07-16

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 1d

"I don’t just organise as a trans person; my organising is trans....this is such a powerful thing that we can utilise to really transform the world and build a collectively liberated world."

Anna Hu & @yaffasutopia.bsky.social for ARCHER MAGAZINE

Archer Asks: Mx Yaffa, Palestinian poet, activist and organiser - Archer Magazine

"The work to build a collectively liberated world is always going to be easier than living in this current – really oppressive – fascistic world." Mx Yaffa chats to Anna Hu.

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 1d

Happy pub day to LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA!!

@yaffasutopia.bsky.social

www.commonnotions.org/letters-from-a-living-utopia

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW:
(Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122
(Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831
Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336

I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

Illinois State Police are protecting ICE as they move their vehicles out of the Broadview Detention Center. Call Governor Pritzker now to demand that he remove the ISP from Broadview. No state resources to protect kidnappers. Pritzker: Call off the IL state police 312-814-2121

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 5d

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 28

#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.

Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein

Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 7d

On the horizon: @yaffasutopia.bsky.social's new book!

LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA builds off of WHISPERS BENEATH THE ORANGE GROVE and DESECRATED POPPIES to offer an expanded vision and roadmap toward collective liberation.

Order before 10/7 to save $$!

Discount code: PREORDER

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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · 10d

📻👄 Guess who’s on the radio? I’m in the latest episode of Radiolab on voice

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Radiolab: Podcasts | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

Investigating a strange world.

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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 14d

Is the whole “anti-ICE” evidence situation still part of the rapture?

I thought the rapture was about folks supporting housing justice. I’m confused… and concerned…

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15d

Happy rapture day! Please aim yourself at the sky in an orderly fashion so the rest of us can inherit your house

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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 18d

& buy books at these intersections! My recs:

📚The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar by @sonorareyes.bsky.social
📚Godly Heathens by HE Edgmon
📚Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore
📚Blood Orange by @yaffasutopia.bsky.social
📚Under All The Lights by @mayaameyaw.bsky.social

Now go to @bookshop.org pls&ty❤️

D.C. (Desi) Heart @desiheart.bsky.social · 18d

Just a reminder that right now is a fantastic time to take that monthly Disney plus cash and spend it on trans/bipoc/disabled creators and small businesses. Boycotting the bad things is fantastic, but using those funds to then support and uplift those who’ve been marginalized is even better.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 20d

While I'm coalescing, enjoy this incredibly cool library pull I got from the @ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social a few days ago 👀

@yaffasutopia.bsky.social @venuskiithomas.bsky.social

Blood Orange by Yaffa As
Nameless Woman by Berrout Selenite and Peña

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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 20d

Sending you immense love and gratitude!

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · Dec 31

I do have a list of books I’m gonna add today:

The dragon and her princess
That one Erin Elkin novella
Essence of the Eye - Jenna topaz
The ecology of art, strike!
Robin's World Rainie oet
Monster seek rainie oet
Letters from a Living Utopia: Reclaiming
Liberation from Palestine to the World That Night I got dragged home by a werewolf Autumn Wolff
Greysmoke rising korps
Against fearful lies
Along torturous paths
Lilith Wine Lo Borgias
Gorman's House TT Madden
Flirting with Death Fern V Bedek

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 24d

We're so excited for our Fall/Winter titles—a few of which are already out in the world!

Check out these graphics for a preview of all the titles, and sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date on all things Common Notions. ⚡️

Sign up: buff.ly/80zTynn

front cover of strike while the needle is hot, the weather report, and abolition and reconstruction. all available now

front cover for letters from a living utopia, notes toward a digital workers' inquiry, and birds in a gale, all coming soon

front cover of me and mine, my city need something, jerry and rodrigo go to war, and remaking democracy. all coming soon

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 22d

LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA was written by @yaffasutopia.bsky.social, and is coming to an indie bookstore near you October 7th!

Order on our site by 10/6 to save some $$ and get a free poster. Use coupon code PREORDER at checkout <3

www.commonnotions.org/letters-from-a-living-utopia

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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 22d

So excited for you all to read this one!

Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 22d

LETTERS FROM A LIVING UTOPIA is a love letter to liberation. A journey of resilient repair that will leave you with the deeply felt certainty that Palestine WILL be free. That Palestine HAS ALWAYS been free.

front cover of the book: clouds in the background with a silhouette of palestine in the foreground.

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Nicole Zelniker @nicolezelniker.bsky.social · 27d

I'm done with Charlie Kirk now. Have some trans/enby book recs:

📚They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
📚Godly Heathens by HE Edgemon
📚A Million Quiet Revolutions by Robin Gow
📚The Boy With The Bird In His Chest by Emme Lund

Plus, poetry collections by Yaffa As, Sojourner Davidson, & Danez Smith.

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calendsofapril @calendsofapril.blackskycomra.de · 25d

#amReading: Did the Science Wars Take Place? by William Gillis

Just finished: Abolish the Family, by Sophie Lewis; Farming While Black, by Leah Penniman

Up next: Palestine 1492: A Report Back, by Linda Quiquivix

Fave this year so far: Inara: Light of Utopia, edited by Mx Yaffa AS

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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 26d

It’s not a matter of if. It’s that a lot of yalls grandparents did say that. Let’s not pretend like the same people targeting us were not okay with mass killing of Jewish, gay, Romani and so many others. Pro-fascists are not new. This is why we need to build a better world, these cycles need to go.

🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 27d

We know everything we need to about systems of oppression. The question is what are we doing and willing to do to dismantle them so we eradicate the actual root of systemic violence.

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🍉Yaffa 🍉 @yaffasutopia.bsky.social · 27d

These events were arbitrary in the sense that any event could have been used to justify the same violence because it’s not a system that can exist without systemic violence.
The only anniversary date to this violence is the birth of these systems as we know them.

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