by Reimagining Childhood Studies | Nov 21, 2023 | Letters for Palestinian childhoods
“Some parents in Gaza have resorted to writing their children’s names on their legs to help identify them should either they or the children be killed.”—CNN, 10/22/2023Write my name on my leg, MamaUse the black permanent markerwith the ink that doesn’t bleedif it gets...
by Reimagining Childhood Studies | Nov 20, 2023 | Letters for Palestinian childhoods
I have watched many times the short heart wrenching clip of you mourning the death of your beloved bird, killed due to airstrikes in your community. I am writing to let you know that I have thought of you often with worry about all the losses that you have endured. I...
by Reimagining Childhood Studies | Nov 19, 2023 | Letters for Palestinian childhoods
I write you as the state of Israel executes a genocide against you. I wonder what would happen if every time the state of Israel kills a Palestinian child, an Israeli Jewish child vanishes? Disappears? As the Native American poet Leslie Marmon Silko says, the...
by Reimagining Childhood Studies | Nov 17, 2023 | Letters for Palestinian childhoods
So much has changed in your life since your 3rd birthday celebrations on the 30th September. Your mum sent me videos then of you riding in a big blue car in an arcade, bouncing up and down with your contagious laugh. How long your wonderful parents spent thinking...
by Reimagining Childhood Studies | Nov 16, 2023 | Letters for Palestinian childhoods
Pienso en ustedes jugando en el Return Park, en el campamento de Malika, y escucho en mi mente sus voces, sus risas, sus gritos de felicidad y de júbilo. Los veo corriendo, saltando y tomándose de las manos, cantando y bailando. Mostrándonos que es posible transformar...
