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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini

@karimwafa.bsky.social
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indigenous writer. historian. lecturer & poet. phd in african american history. i write about culture, identity, empire and books. author of: child of a stolen homeland for more: linktr.ee/karimwafa

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nolan Wells. That’s it. That’s the message.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Capitalism wants you to pick one interest and choose a niche. Your spirit wants you to express every aspect of your being because authenticity cannot be contained in one box. Unapologetic expression is liberation.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Do not be afraid to feel. To feel in this world that is hell-bent on making you lose your empathy is one of the most courageous things you could ever do.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The people who say politics has nothing to do with ordinary life are often describing the privilege of not having to notice where power touches theirs.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The world has enough spectators. Become someone’s evidence that goodness still exists.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
we emptied the rivers to hydrate data centers while humanity died of thirst
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If your compassion has a nationality, a religion, a culture, or a race, it is worth asking what you actually mean when you say compassion.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Funny how many of those saying “I don’t take sides” only say so pertaining to Palestine, but they willingly took sides when it came to Ukraine. It’s nothing but selective empathy. You’re neutral when it’s convenient, and you only show solidarity when it’s socially acceptable.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Power fears empathy because empathy refuses to rank human worth.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I have come to the conclusion that people who are not concerned or angry at the current state of the world have been successfully stripped of their empathy as well as any remaining sliver of humanity because how can you witness the removal of all life on earth and not bat an eye?
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s always the countries that contribute the least to climate change that have to bear the brunt of its consequences.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The planet is overheating because greed has no natural predator.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
omg Dolly Parton nooo 💔
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Every empire convinces people that exhaustion is noble.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I don’t want data centres. I want trees and nature. I want bees and biodiversity. I want clean drinking water. I want to go back to the way things were when we were one small step closer to nature. Without water we have no life on earth. I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to understand.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you’re not mad, exhausted, or radicalized right now: congrats on the privilege. The rest of us are just trying to survive the simulation without losing our minds.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ICE agents of today are the Klansmen of yesterday.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We taught machines to imitate human voices. Now we must teach humans to stop speaking like machines.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Reading is the greatest act of resistance in an age designed to destroy attention. We are currently witnessing the biggest war over human attention in recorded history.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Jason Arday is yet another painful example of how academia is still a tool of empire used to protect and defend white supremacy. We’ve been warning for years that the system can offer us a seat at the table without ever surrendering the pillars of injustice used to build it.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
What’s one book that everyone raves about that you read but just didn’t get the hype?
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Nature does not need saving from us nearly as much as we need saving from the outrageous illusion that we somehow stand outside of it.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The problem with the world is that the oppressed are constantly asked to explain their pain in ways that make the comfortable feel comfortable.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A society obsessed with productivity eventually forgets how to recognize humanity outside of performance because everything in society has to be trendy, profitable or turn into content. This is not sustainable.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The problem with the ‘modern world’ is that people romanticize Indigenous cultures while actively participating in the very same systems that destroy Indigenous lands and ways of life.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Modern life moves so fast because if people ever slowed down long enough to think, the entire system would collapse under questioning.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Fascism begins when comfort matters more than someone else’s freedom.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The world will call you dramatic for crying over people you’ve never met. But empathy isn’t the problem and it never has been. A world that teaches us not to care is the real sickness. Don’t let them take your heart and make you believe that your compassion is a weakness.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Healing becomes less mysterious when you realize the body is not a machine asking for efficiency but an ecosystem asking for a relationship.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If your politics require children to die quietly overseas so stock prices stay calm, your politics are garbage.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My newest poem
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The data centres I support are libraries.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
August will be good to us. Let it be filled with not just love and joy, but also healing and rest. May this month offer us so much of what we need. May it bring the world closer to freedom and justice. May goodness prevail. May we heal and grow. May we find everything we need.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Books are time machines made of trees and ink.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I went to the mall today. Did I need to buy anything? No. Did I leave with bags full of books and notebooks? You bet. Welcome to the world of a full-time writer and reader.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The system wants you overstimulated, under-rested, anxious and isolated. That is why slowing down and resting is seen as such a threat, because capitalism thrives on keeping you on the move and drained.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this but never in human history have those who burned books been the good guys.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
When one of us resists, it strengthens every single one of us. A protest in Haiti echoes in Palestine. A chant in Sudan flows to Ferguson. Liberation has never been local. It has always been a heartbeat all oppressed people share. We don’t have to speak the same language to fight the same empire.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Celebrating the 1.5 year anniversary of the release of my debut poetry collection. Thank you to all the wonderful people that have bought, read, and supported. ❤️‍🩹
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Do_Not_Obey @zoobzz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I recommend! Spare and poignant; pain and love.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Celebrating the 1.5 year anniversary of the release of my debut poetry collection. Thank you to all the wonderful people that have bought, read, and supported. ❤️‍🩹
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
America frequently cherry-picks its history to erase its internal contradictions. It celebrates diversity in the media while funding the global and domestic policing of Black and Brown communities. Hypocrisy is at the root of American statehood.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
They say they hate “wokeness,” but what they really hate is empathy. Because once you start caring about other people’s experiences, inequalities become harder to ignore, and privilege becomes harder to defend.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A gentle reminder: if you’ve read my book and it meant something to you, I’d be so grateful if you shared your thoughts in a review on Goodreads or Amazon. Reviews help other readers find my work and mean so much to us writers. ❤️‍🩹🙏🏽 Thank you for being here in my little corner of the writing world.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Privilege is learning about your people in textbooks, while mine are nothing but footnotes.
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