{"id":356,"date":"2025-03-02T08:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T08:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sevenheavensco.com\/pk\/?p=356"},"modified":"2025-03-02T08:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T08:07:56","slug":"on-revolutionary-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevenheavensco.com\/pk\/2025\/03\/02\/on-revolutionary-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"On Revolutionary Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by\u00a0S\u00e1ra.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

My feed is soaked in blood.<\/p>\n

Headlines pile as the death toll climbs. Videos of decimated homes and dismembered children pierce my screen. Aid convoys and workers are killed, leaving surviving Palestinians starving. Politicians convene and emails are sent.<\/p>\n

Bleeding ensues.<\/p>\n

Time inches forward and I\u2019m unsure what to do with my hands. Clinging to hope feels like a futile, offensive pursuit.<\/p>\n

What good will soaked pillowcases do?<\/p>\n

As despair circles me,\u00a0Toni Morrison\u2019s words<\/a>\u00a0reel me in:<\/p>\n

\u201cI insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that\u2019s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Her insistence serves as an antidote to the collective apathy that allows the apartheid to devastate. So long as it is channelled into sustained commitments of solidarity, like:<\/p>\n