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Southern queers on screen often reflect the fantasy of cultural stereotypes

a ghostly spirit of vengeance

this authentic and personal text promotes kindness and empathy

The Habit Tracker with a Badass Edge

Rifqa Santino Hassell Southern queers on screen oftenEach day after school, Mohammed El Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El Kurd lays bare the brutality of Israeli settler colonialism. His poems trace Rifqa's exile from Haifa to his family's current dispossession in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, exposing the cyclical