Aisha
Leila khaled is an inspiration to all, what a wonderful read on her journey on becoming a revolutionary. It really does open your eyes seeing the perspective of the one carrying out the militancy. She explains why armed struggle is imperative. “Violence breeds violence”.
I found the accounts from her life; her displacement, the abhorrent actions by the IDF, how Palestinians voices were shut out from the UN, Nasserism, the PFLP, the Arab world during early occupation, Class struggles within, how she had to navigate the resistance space as a woman, really insightful. It’s no surprise that this book is hard to find, I recommend reading it.
Leila khaled is an inspiration to all, what a wonderful read on her journey on becoming a revolutionary. It really does open your eyes seeing the perspective of the one carrying out the militancy. She explains why armed struggle is imperative. “Violence breeds violence”.
I found the accounts from her life; her displacement, the abhorrent actions by the IDF, how Palestinians voices were shut out from the UN, Nasserism, the PFLP, the Arab world during early occupation, Class struggles within, how she had to navigate the resistance space as a woman, really insightful. It’s no surprise that this book is hard to find, I recommend reading it.
From the get go I could tell the reds were British working class coded, an attempt was made, however it was so painfully American. Don’t know if it’s just me but yanks tend to romanticise the aesthetics of this group and reading the earlier chapters was just the whole ‘Irish are the most oppressed’ but now they are too in the future! I really didn’t like how the author was still feeding into traditional gender dynamics when this is set 1000 years later in mars, and you’re still writing about how men are only the ones providing, working intense physical jobs, and the women get to be domestic trad wives. Perhaps I’m being a bit hyperbolic but it’s just subtle narratives like this that ruin this book for me. And if you’re going to write a book about oppressed class, I’m confused about the choice to make this post racial, as if the struggles here don’t mimic exactly what enslaved people went through, or are going through today. That’s just my opinion from DNF-ing halfway through, just couldn’t continue reading unfortunately.
From the get go I could tell the reds were British working class coded, an attempt was made, however it was so painfully American. Don’t know if it’s just me but yanks tend to romanticise the aesthetics of this group and reading the earlier chapters was just the whole ‘Irish are the most oppressed’ but now they are too in the future! I really didn’t like how the author was still feeding into traditional gender dynamics when this is set 1000 years later in mars, and you’re still writing about how men are only the ones providing, working intense physical jobs, and the women get to be domestic trad wives. Perhaps I’m being a bit hyperbolic but it’s just subtle narratives like this that ruin this book for me. And if you’re going to write a book about oppressed class, I’m confused about the choice to make this post racial, as if the struggles here don’t mimic exactly what enslaved people went through, or are going through today. That’s just my opinion from DNF-ing halfway through, just couldn’t continue reading unfortunately.
