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critic. writes rent free on substack. PhD pending. words everywhere: british vogue, teen vogue, new york magazine, flaunt, cosmo, vox, vulture +

Joined February 2021
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i interviewed @katseyeworld for the cover of flaunt magazine !! the sweetest girls; i can't remember the last time i had such fun in an interview. i hope you all enjoy reading the piece as much as i enjoyed writing it. link below 💕
for Issue 200, Joy is Contagious with @FlauntMagazine read the full story on flaunt.com
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“Neither the future of the Palestinian people nor the territorial sovereignty of Somalia can be used as a bargaining chip… Unequivocally rejects any steps aimed at advancing this objective, including any attempt by Israel to relocate the Palestinian population from Gaza into Northwestern Somalia… Will neither accept nor condone the illegal use of any territory, let alone that of a sovereign State which is a Member of the United Nations, to deny the right to self-determination to a people who have been subjected to crimes against humanity for many years… Rather than contributing genuinely to the commendable international peace efforts in the Middle East through the long-overdue recognition of an independent and sovereign Palestinian State, Israel has instead chosen to project instability into the Horn of Africa, promote division and create new sources of tensions in a region, already facing multidimensional and complex challenges.”
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there are more clips of the blackpink girls saying slurs than there are songs in their discography.
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"This land grows resistance fighters as it grows olive trees" - Abu Obaida
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I always have so much fun translating Park Chan-wook’s prose, and this one in particular is one of the absolute gems: Park on his favorite Tom Waits song “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis”
"Tom Waits. Is Tom waiting? Absolutely not. To me, Tom seems to live without even the faintest idea of hope. His melodies and the timbre of his voice exude so much despair. But he’s not always so serious. He has an incredible sense of humor, and that’s what I love about Tom..." Jawni Han (@kimchimarx) translates a droll tribute to Waits penned by Park Chan-wook in the early 2000s: mubi.com/notebook/posts/tran…
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just finished rewatching past lives, and i forgot how much i adored teo yoo's performance; as soft and sweet as a piece of taffy. what a tender, tender film.
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i painted this completely BY HAND !! A.I. COULD NEVER!!
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Let me tell you something about someone called Fela Kuti.
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just fell to my knees
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Somaliland deserves this status.
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watching somalis talk about israel with reverence has filled me with a rage i do not have the language to express. our forefathers fought off the colonisers, and freed our land from their influence. they watch from above now as their children dance for those same genociders.
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once a colonial bootlicker, always a colonial bootlicker. selling out your people, selling out our Palestinian siblings to become a glorified IOF base- how nauseating. how spineless. how un-Somali.
The Prime Minister announced today the official recognition of the Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state. Prime Minister Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Sa'ar, and the President of the Republic of Somaliland signed a joint and mutual declaration.
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A little over a year ago I was lucky enough to fact-check this profile by @Raniaab on Mohammad Bakri. I never had the honor of sitting with Bakri myself, but I really felt like I got to know an incredible man through Rania’s words. Allah yerhamo. thenation.com/article/world/…
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2025 has been a graveyard for our greatest artists and thinkers. seeing jenin, jenin as a teenager changed my world view irrevocably. he loved his people and beared witness to their lives. may he be elevated the highest of heavens.
Renowned Palestinian actor and director Mohammad Bakri has died at 72. Born in Biina, Galilee, he survived the Nakba and spent 40+ years exposing Israeli oppression through film, appearing in 43 works including his banned documentary Jenin, Jenin. Rest in power. 🕊️
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skill issue.
I do pity Chalamet. He’s got talent coming out of his eyeballs, he’s charismatic, he’s a marketing genius. But it’s so damn hard to sell original films in 2025. I hate the general public. I’m sure it’ll do well but 30 years ago this would be doing crazy numbers
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do you know how difficult it is for people to keep up with yeonjun on stage? having stage presence this nuts at eighteen is wild. yoonchae, your future is so bright.
YOONCHAE AND YEONJUN PERFORMING LET ME TELL YOU AND TALK TO YOU
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Dreamgirls is also an elite unofficial Christmas movie.
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Josh Safdie’s ‘MARTY SUPREME’ is eyeing a $12–20M opening in wide release.
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every year is a great year for non-english movies 😭
2025 was a great year for non-English movies
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makó shot paloma elsesser and solange for a ferragamo shoot with harper’s bazaar italia last year and these portraits have not left my mind since. what a talent.
First Lady of New York City lensed by Szilveszter Makó!!!
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