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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia)

@mailbykite.bsky.social
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Artist, writer, filmmaker. Buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT, in LDN. ANNAH, INFINITE out now ❤️‍🔥 Also wrote amuk, ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infin…

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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 3h
Yes!
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 4h
Truly! And the love and care and appreciation of physical media that's made to be welcoming, and spaces that host it & the conversations around it. So many book groups & listening parties & film curations, sharing knowledge beyond the algo.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 5h
Gen Z bringing back physical media (books! CDs!) and refusing to feed parasitic algorithms truly brings me hope.
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Olivia Kidula @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app · 9h
The nerve of using a Ngugi wa Thiong’o quote in what is essentially a puff piece advocating for AI detection tools while (not so) subtly denigrating the idea of human editing. “Well Panagram says it doesn’t discriminate against race so let’s believe the machine over the Africans.” BOO!
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Omair Ahmad @omairahmad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Tens of thousands of protestors are facing off against tens of thousands of police in the capital of India, as they demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner who has illegally deleted millions of people from India's electoral rolls. Biggest democracy story on the planet, not in BSky.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
‘It’s the language you speak because you drink the blood of my people. I can’t trust it with my memories.’ - Yahya Ashour, ‘The Violence of English’ www.thekeymagazine.com/p/yahya-asho... @palfest.bsky.social
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The Violence of English
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It is appalling that the Irish government has denied visas to these Palestinian students from Gaza, this must be overturned. #LetThemStudy Gazan students’ visas must be granted before it is too late www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Gazan students’ visas must be granted before it is too late
A group of leading Irish academics write that the mass refusal of visas to Palestinian students makes a mockery of the Taoiseach’s speech to the UN General Assembly
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Absolutely, for Southeast Asia as well re: poetic forms that are very much oral, communal, spiritual and not solely ‘for the page’. Also, there are many blind and visually-impaired poetry-lovers that rely on poems being audible.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you’re in Nottingham, I’ll be there performing poetry at Bad Betty Live, FRI Oct 16, 6.30PM. ✨ Alongside Sarah Howe, Perla Kantarjian, Aoife O'Connor, Nippa Uddin and music from Tony D. BSL-interpreted. Tix & access info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bad-betty-...
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Bad Betty Live, 16th October
A dynamic night of live poetry and music, showcasing exciting acts from Notts, the UK and beyond in a warm, inclusive setting. BSL signed.
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don't miss work from ALOCASIA by Camille Cornu translated from the French by Sam Nartus-Fois!
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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Delighted that my translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Our City that Year is in this excellent long list from @womenintranslation.bsky.social ! 🧿
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Arika @00arika00.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📽️ The Nakba in the Room Rene Gabri & Ayreen Anastas An experimental live film performance that asks where art has stood in the perpetration of the Nakba? 📅 Wed 11 November, 8.30pm 📍 Tramway & Online bit.ly/4e6el9S Part of Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas 📸 Courtesy of the artists
A photo that shows the exterior of a damaged building. The destroyed stairway has been re-constructed with concrete, scrap metal, and salvaged wood. And the door has been replaced with plywood. In the background there is a rolling hill covered in olive trees, shrubland, and other damaged buildings.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So deserved!!! 🤍
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
7-8PM UK time, I’m giving this Keynote Performance for Lancaster Uni’s conference ‘Animals in Translation: AI, Ethics and the Future of Interspecies Dialogue’. It’s also an AV translation of an original artwork I was commissioned to make. #xl8 🌊 Conf livestream links: wp.lancs.ac.uk/animalsintra...
Text says: ‘On Oceanic Terms, On Memory’s Conditions

In the near-future, an unforeseen incident with profound consequences for the future of life on Earth occurs in the Indian Ocean. Inciting circumstances involve a family of blue whales and a group of billionaires invested in the proliferation of artificial intelligence. What if a stenographer from the Court of the Global Majority, herself raised underwater and a key witness, were to relay details of the happening—now known in English as the Mass Marine Linguistic Event—to an audience of translators whose work has been intrinsically tied to its creation?’
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dan!!! 🤍
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW CALLOUT ALERT! We are seeking Indonesian speculative fiction in Bahasa Indonesia and English for publication in khōréō’s Volume 7 in 2027. The callout is open from now until November 5, 2026, details on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
Open call for Indonesian Speculative Fiction in Translation
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
✨ TOMORROW❗️ A Radical Proposal: Why literary translators should see themselves as workers and how building solidarity will lead to better working conditions across the industry, and ensure a more vibrant, diverse, and sustainable literary ecosystem not only for translators but readers too.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Join me TUE, Sept Sept 29, 12-1.30PM UK time, for ‘And They Made Themselves A Land of Belief’, a writing wshop on disbelief as ill/disabled people, & ancestral + future sources of resistance. In collab w Resting Up Collective + ORT gallery. #CripSky #CripLit 🤍 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/and-they-m...
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'And They Made Themselves A Land of Belief' | Crip Resistance II
Join us for a generative writing workshop with acclaimed writer and artist Khairani Barokka, exploring disbelief placed on the unwell body
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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're so so thrilled to announce our finalists list for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. We can't thank you all enough for spreading the message, applying, and sharing your words with us.
The 2026 ALOCASIA

Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers Finalists List

Jaq Hack

Fiona Jin

Tara Labovich

Wylde J. Parsley

Mary Beth Becker

Haley Bossé

Chrysanthemum Brook Watkins

Mikhaela Woodward

Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin

Christopher Phelps

Supported by funding from Accelerate Resilience L.A., a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 23/09/2026
lads, is it bad when bookstores are getting their windows smashed in?
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...
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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image included is a still from my short film ‘Herbalisme’ (2025), depicting four Indonesian women in kebaya and sarungs, cutting turmeric in the sky, with Jakarta skyline below them.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Join me TUE, Sept Sept 29, 12-1.30PM UK time, for ‘And They Made Themselves A Land of Belief’, a writing wshop on disbelief as ill/disabled people, & ancestral + future sources of resistance. In collab w Resting Up Collective + ORT gallery. #CripSky #CripLit 🤍 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/and-they-m...
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'And They Made Themselves A Land of Belief' | Crip Resistance II
Join us for a generative writing workshop with acclaimed writer and artist Khairani Barokka, exploring disbelief placed on the unwell body
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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
From the hell of Gaza, 15-year-old Abood is begging you to help save him. Abood suffers from sudden seizures & epilepsy & urgently needs his essential Keppra medication. His family cannot afford to buy it. Any support could bring him treatment & hope. chuffed.org/project/1844...
Picture of AboodAnother picture of Abood with a text :
I'm Abood from Gaza, save my life
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🤍🤍🤍
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Available in both text and my audio reading.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
[Repost due to site changes] My commissioned creative piece for feminist film archive Cinenova is up now—it’s on three beautiful short films by late anti-nuclear activist Sandra Lahire. Hope it brings more ppl to her work, relevant now as ever. #FilmSky cinenova.org/writing/on-h...
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Cinenova - On Half-Lives
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Health been healthing, but just want to pop on here to say: forever and always, Free Palestine.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Guest editor Graciela Maglia presents a selection of fiction and poetry translated from Creole languages of the Caribbean, including Martinican Creole, Haitian Creole, Palenquero, and more, plus a photo essay focused on the Colombian Palenquero community: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
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The Creole Continuum of the Greater Caribbean - Words Without Borders
Graciela Maglia introduces “Creole Languages of the Caribbean,” featuring literature translated from Palenquero, Haitian Creole, and more.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Tomorrow:
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
We have a decade of research that says this is a bad idea. Beyond that, we have a decade of research that says this will absolutely fuck over marginalized folks.
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Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There is still time to register for our ‘Natures in #Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation‘ conference, 1-2 October, @Lancaster University! wp.lancs.ac.uk/animalsintra... Keynotes: Ursula Heise Khairani Barokka César Rodríguez-Garavito Eva Meijer Şebnem Susam-Saraeva. 🌍🌱🐬
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Conference
Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation Lancaster University, UK 1-2 October 2026 Conference funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and BRAID Abstract submissi…
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Afraid of Encounters (He/Him) @isaacisafraid.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
For those who are wondering wtf is going on in my country, Indonesia, right now. Today we are also having a protest at the capital.
Instagram post from @buruhperempuan:
DEAR SEABLINGS AND INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS, INDONESIA IS NOT OK. PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO INDONESIA. BIG PROTESTS ARE HAPPENING IN INDONESIA. WE REALLY NEED INTERNATIONAL MEDIA TO WATCH WHAT'S HAPPENING AND REPORT IT TO THE WORLD. Instagram post from @buruhperempuan:
HERE ARE 5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION HERE:
- AN EARTHQUAKE OCCURED IN FLORES, WHILE FOREST FIRES ARE BURNING  IN SUMATRA, PAPUA, AND KALIMANTAN
- THE PEOPLE OF PATI ARE DEMANDING THE PASSAGE OF THE ASSET FORFEITURE BILL
- WORKING CLASS CITIZENS ARE DEMANDING A LABOR LAW THAT PROTECTS AND PRIORITIZES WORKER'S RIGHTS
- THE STATE BUDGET (APBN) IS BEING USED IN WAYS THAT MARGINALIZE CITIZENS' BASIC RIGHTS, PARTICULARLY ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE AND EDUCATION
- THE INDONESIAN RUPIAH CONTINUES TO WEAKEN, WHILE LARGE SCALE CORRUPTION CONTINUES TO OCCUR.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Always great to have more ecopoetry that understands historical perspectives; delighted this is out and to have blurbed it! Congratulations, Tim.
Cover of Wildness Unafraid, a blue book with an illustration of a bird and a moon on it. Background of book is blue fabric.
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Mekong Review @mekongreview.com · 28/08/2026
What's happened in Tibet and Nepal is devastating. Our hearts break for the families who have lost loved ones and for those who will need to rebuild their lives completely. Many tragic stories will be told, and we hope the artists and journalists who tell them will speak the truth bravely.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Aku cinta Jakarta! My riotous, mean, alive, and ever-surprising hometown. Thank you Nathalie Handal and WWB for having me. #xl8
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In today’s installment of Nathalie Handal’s “The City and the Writer,” Khairani Barokka (@mailbykite.bsky.social) speaks of Jakarta as a bustling epicenter of resilience and togetherness. Read about a city in perpetual motion and conversation on WWB: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
An abstract blue background with a portrait of Khairani Barokka in the upper right. Black text reads:
The City and the Writer
In Jakarta with Khairani Barokka
By Nathalie Handal
“Every time I return, even if I’ve been there not so long ago, traversing the city I notice so many changes go by. Being in motion has allowed us to observe and remember those changes, to cement continually new forms of nostalgia.”
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
1000 days of the US-funded genocide. 1.9 million Palestinians surviving in tents. Sameer Project continues its work despite grave risks and drastic falls in donations. According to this image, they have raised $25 mill so far. It will take $75 billion to rebuild Gaza. chuffed.org/project/help...
Text on image:
That line represents $25 million, which is around how much we have raised in two years. 
Can you see this almost invisible, thin sliver of a line?
The rest of this 'pie chart'? $75 billion
This is the difference between what we have raised and conservative estimates on the cost of rebuilding Gaza. The Sameer project and Translating Falasteen
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I’ll be on the Celebrasia panel Telling Stories: Fact and Fiction,with Will Harris, Ivy Ngeow, and Nicola Dinan. Join us! Arches Lane Theatre, Battersea Power Station, London Sunday, September 13 • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrasia...
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celebrASIA Panel: Telling stories, fact & fiction
New for celebrASIA 2026, we are hosting a series of expert panel talks exploring storytelling, food, fashion, heritage and culture.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hi!
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I work hard to incorporate Tribal policy into my general public policy classes because too often the field forgets that Tribal Nations exist. Using this and the Miccosukee this semester as useful cases.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
‘Fluency in English and either Dari or Pashto is essential; fluency in all three languages is highly desirable.’ #xl8
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
They’re saying it’s because of money while they have some 200 million £ in reserve. It’s a full on attack on the humanities
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
This is actually what chatgpt is for.
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Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT, Which Will Churn Out Anti-Evolution Curriculums With No Pushback
Homeschooling was already a fraught practice, even before parents began turning to ChatGPT to plan out their lessons.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A pleasure to have read and blurbed Tolulope Oke’s debut, ENCOUNTERS. ‘it does not matter that we stress the wrong syllables when our tongues tremble from the tyranny at home, trying to enter a country that despises us.’ - from ‘Language Forgives Us More than the World Does’
Cover of Tolulope Oke’s ENCOUNTERS, a light cream cover with a city grid map on it.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fundraiser for laid-off staff of Asian American Writers’ Workshop. The Margins has supported Asian writing community for so many years, am so sorry to hear about this: chuffed.org/project/1583...
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Laid Off Workers' Safety Fund
On Aug. 4, 2026 the remaining staff at AAWW received layoff emails from the newly-announced Interim Executive Director Ed Lin.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
You can help Hammam's family survive Israel's genocidal siege by sharing & donating. They're homeless & sick with intestinal & skin diseases from destroyed sanitation & healthcare. His disabled brother Abood has a broken leg & urgently needs surgery, & his mother needs meds for asthma:
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Support for the Nurse and My Brother Abood
Hi! My name is Hammam Al-Shanti.
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Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Honoured to be giving a keynote performance at this, alongside a new visual artwork. You may guess my viewpoints. #xl8
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San Alland (they/San) @san-alland.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Pals! I'm back & have (limited) stock of these! Can post anywhere. PayPal, UK bank, CAD e-transfer. Email cachin AT blissfultimes DOT ca. Audiobooks for Anything Not Measurable, Sore Loser, Stairs & Whispers. Some audio for Proof of a Tongue and Blissful Times. www.blissfultimes.ca/books #booksky
Image: Covers of all the books listed above. Brown top left: Stairs and Whispers Deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka and Daniel Sluman. Red top middle: Blissful Times (a ruler runs down the right side). Blue top right: Proof of a Tongue, poems by Sandra Alland (self portrait with underwater camera). Blue bottom left: Anything Not Measurable Is Not Real, stories by Sandra Alland (with a hand-drawn sailboat by Stuart Ross). Yellow bottom right: Sore Loser, a chronic pain and illness zine on queer disabled grief by Etzali Hernández and Sandra Alland (main title handwritten with a finger dipped in ink).
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