Adam Rahmani

One of the infinite expressions of love.

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The Acquired Taste for Ruin
Not long ago, footage surfaced of our oppressors gathered in a hall, watching the destruction of Lebanon. They cheered. They laughed. They raised their glasses to the ruin of a country. And we were right to be sickened. Only a hollowed-out people, we said, could rejoice at such a thing. We were right.
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Beyond the False Binary
On Honouring Legacy Without Losing Our Voice
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Stop Strawmanning Love
The first thing that is said, always, is this: if you speak of love you must mean weakness. You must mean submission. You must mean that we are to stand before those who harm us and offer them our gratitude for doing so.
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Our Struggle Is Sacred. What About Our Solutions?
I want you to know, before I say anything else, that I am not standing across from you. I am standing beside you, looking at the same thing, feeling what you feel. The anger, I understand. The helplessness that turns into fury when you have watched injustice unfold, time and again. The heartbreaking reaction of a world that seems to turn away. You do no…
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A Different Kind of Power
I know you are tired. I know you will not say it out loud because saying it out loud feels like a betrayal of everyone who cannot afford to be tired, everyone whose exhaustion is permanent and has no bed to return to. So you keep the tiredness hidden, even from yourself, and you feed the fire instead, because the fire at least feels like doing something…
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Free in a Way Hate Never Was
Do not tell me it is not the harder thing. I know what it costs to love when everything in you has earned the right to hate.

But I have also seen what hate costs, how it accumulates in the body, in the soul, in the children, how it slowly diminishes the full size of what you were made to be.

I have watched hate …