by Reimagining Childhood Studies | Mar 11, 2024 | Letters for Palestinian childhoods
Yaaa Weldi, I sit here with all the batanyat, mittens, and bonnets I made Filled with countless dreams unfulfilled for which I had so heartily prayed; Numb by your white, stained, airless Kafan with no name or tomb, Remembering they said, no place is safer than...
by Reimagining Childhood Studies | Feb 29, 2024 | Letters for Palestinian childhoods
Every day I send my 5-year-old son to Kindergarten with a “love note” in his lunchbox — A small drawing of a plant or animal with “love you” written underneath. Since your murder, Hind, I have been drawing a love note for you each day with the beautiful...
by Reimagining Childhood Studies | Feb 20, 2024 | Children's letters for Palestinian children, Letters for Palestinian childhoods
Hello people of Palestine, I always watch the news of Palestine and I feel very sorry for what you are going through, and I wish I could change something, but I can’t, but I wish with all my heart that things change and your situation improves. I’ve also had to leave...
by Reimagining Childhood Studies | Feb 20, 2024 | Letters for Palestinian childhoods
I watched holocaust survivor, Marione Ingram, on democracy now tell us that her heart is breaking because she knows what the children of Gaza are going through – she knows what you are feeling.Her words felt like a jolt, because at that moment exactly, it...
by Reimagining Childhood Studies | Feb 15, 2024 | Letters for Palestinian childhoods
My dear friend, Have you ever heard a grown-up say ‘its complicated’? When a grown-up says this, it’s very rare that it actually IS complicated. This is an answer that grown-ups usually give when they don’t want to give you a REAL answer. It could be because they...
by Reimagining Childhood Studies | Feb 12, 2024 | Letters for Palestinian childhoods
In your blue skirt and your red blouse, you move so gently, full of joy, as if the world was a wonder and there were no ruins around you. Captured, I glimpse the scene as if on a movie screen. In her black jacket, a girl makes a winter jump, full of joy, as if the...
