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Hasheemah Afaneh
JoinedJanuary 14, 2021
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Hasheemah Afaneh, MPH is a Palestinian-American writer and public health professional based in New Orleans. Her work centers on social justice and various intersections related to it. You can find some of her work in Sinking City Literary Magazine, The Markaz Review, 580 Split Magazine, Glass Poetry Poets Resist Series, Poets Reading the News, This Week in Palestine, and others. Her website is norestrictionsonwords.wordpress.com. She tweets @its_hashie.

Contemplating Justice at a Junction

Sitting in my car at the stoplight on the intersection of Canal Street and Loyola Avenue in New Orleans, I observed the continued construction – or rather, deconstruction – of the Hard Rock Hotel that semi-collapsed a year ago right outside of the French Quarter. I shook my head, as...
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An Ode to Mispronounced Names

I spent the first few months in the Diaspora giving baristas American names like “Samantha, just Sammy for short,” instead of my [also] three-syllable name because unless you stop to listen to my name’s pronunciation, you’ll hear “Shina”, “Sheemuh”, and unless you stop to ask me where I am from,...
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