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Oct 1Liked by Danya Issawi

Nothing feels real anymore, everything feels like sand and it keeps slipping away and burying us deeper in our own shame (at least that’s what I feel) in our inability to do something.

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Danya. I'm so so so sorry. My cognitive dissonance is a lower level but still BLARING in my ears as a child of Egyptian immigrants. I want your family to be safe. I want everyone's families to be safe. Thank you for sharing this and I'm sorry you have to share this, and I try to write about this every week or share resources in every post... Much love, habibty.

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Oct 3Liked by Danya Issawi

Deeply resonate with this. Nothing actually matters. We just go on and on like it’s normal when it’s far from it

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Exactly, everything is supposed to be all hunky dory, meanwhile our money is ripping families apart.

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And when those of us with a brain and heart speak up, we’re gaslighted from every angle. It feels so dystopian

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Oct 2Liked by Danya Issawi

I feel this. Every bit of it. Everything feels irrelevant— which is why I haven’t posted in some weeks 💔💔

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Everything feels SOOOO irrelevant

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Oct 2Liked by Danya Issawi

We are here and we hear you.

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