Qian Xi Teng #FreePalestine

Cities should be allowed to build housing for adults like this. We do it for hostels, and it can serve as "housing of last resort." Very cheap rent, by the bed. There'd have to be strictly enforced rules if paired with strangers, but it's not impossible.

Don’t fall into the trap of mourning a life you can still live

In your own life, stay away from the love represented in the Urdu ghazal. Ghazals depict a lover and a beloved in a relationship of vastly unequal power—whence the piquancy of the ghazal. It is another matter that the madness & deathwardness of ghazal love is true to life.

scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent. —Rabea Eghbariah