Contribution short abstract

Doing with people amid genocide resists the overwriting of lifeworlds, towards rupturing the humanitarian rubric that deny the right to resist. Much more than perfect victims, Palestinian lifeworlds in academic spaces must exist. To reject paralysis is to claim a worldmaking of liberation.

Contribution long abstract

To speak in times of genocide is a task of a threshold of resisting a process of overwriting a history, a people, and an entire lifeworlds of a population. To maintain a process of resisting erasure, it is imperative to move beyond a mono-representation of a population under genocide by concretely offering support in one’s own specialization: public talks, workshops, courses, scholarships, to name a few. Departing from there cements a crucial step in not only escaping but also disrupting one of the most, among many, mainstream depictions and ways of ‘help’ through humanitarian rubric. Palestinians are not perfect victims and simultaneously not meta-humans: a departure that entails worlds of resistance, sumud, existence and beings of the colonized, and a premise that sets the starting point to being unapologetic, in academic spaces and pages and beyond, about the rights of the colonized to resist (by all means), to have the capacity (full capacity) to feel and express without deemed uncredible, and most importantly, to have a voice and speak for themselves. In setting a continuity for a revolutionary Palestinian-ness and beyond, it is rather indispensable to reject a departure from paralysis and helplessness (one objective, among many, of colonial violence); to moving beyond to a world of creating, owning, collectivizing, and, above all, claiming a worldmaking rooted in justice, solidarity, liberation, and becoming.