Shea is a Corvallis resident living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2024-2025. They are working in a Palestinian-led organization committed to resisting the oppression and dispossession of Palestinians using a nonviolent methodology. They are documenting human rights abuses, disrupting activity by Israeli occupation forces and settlers, accompanying children to school and farmers to their fields, and residing with families whose homes are threatened with demolition. Donate to sustain their work, here!
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In the field
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I never felt so far away from friends and family, but I was glad of it.
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The only way to make this work sustainable is to balance it with rest.
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Every person murdered is a complex human being.
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How every day is spent: waiting, watching, praying.
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Off-roading under apartheid
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Another family I love
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Heartwarming & heartbreaking
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Zionists and white supremacists are the same.
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Growing pains
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Joy and sorrow exist side by side.
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The invention of the Jewish people
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How to persevere in struggle and how to thrive against all odds
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The only real threat to queer Palestinians is the occupation.
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Naksa in Arabic means “the setback.”
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Their right to national self-determination is inalienable.
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The depth of time
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It is hard to tease apart saviorism from feeling responsible.
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Pull out the roots
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I am weary but happy to be here.
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I trust that they know something I do not.
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Even his cows get more water and electricity than people living a kilometer away
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You begin to feel like part of their family.
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True connection and understanding of the land
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Zionism is the catastrophe
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Colonial police forces, closing ranks
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Water rights
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Verbally tormenting a child while smashing her house to rubble
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A sick kind of tour
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“They Called Me a Lioness”
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Grape leaves and wrist slaps for murder
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Heavy under the weight of the heat
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What resistance means, to me
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Everyone is on strike.
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You can’t kill an idea.
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Burned cars = house arrest
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Memories of astounding injustice bubble up in every conversation.
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Ballistic missiles from Iran, I am safe
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Hands cramped, blistered and cut
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First day of Eid, black vans with tinted bulletproof windows
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History of Masafer Yatta, late-night henna, and a call to action
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Joys and struggles of the families
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Sleep, or night watch?
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Arrests of volunteers
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Playing army
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Mother of a martyr
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Shepherding on a hot day
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A home destroyed five times
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Risk, resistance, resilience
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Arrival in Masafer Yatta
