📚On Thursday 4/25 7PM @riffraffpvd we will be holding a reading of BLOODLINES by meital yaniv in conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.

bloodlines is an epic and intimate dive into the israeli apartheid regime from the perspective of an ex-israeli/ ex-zionist soldier. Born into a sephardic and ashkenazi lineage of in/famous war heroes and pillars for the state of israel, meital yaniv traces their paternal family narrative from surviving the Holocaust of the second world war to migrating to Palestine and their subsequent indoctrination as zionist colonizers and defenders of the state of israel.

yaniv directs our attention to the cycles of history and how genocide not only repeats but grows monstrously in the crevices of state belonging. Through a bold and radical poetics that unsettles language and definition, they foreground vulnerability while traversing the nuance of voice and inner forms of address. yaniv unravels the coordinates of belonging to write in the fissures of israeli identity. bloodlines is an invitation to contemporary israelis to unstitch the military uniform from their bodies and to reckon with their atrocities against generations of Palestinian lives and livelihoods.
It is also a demand that the ongoing catastrophes in Palestine end now! Please join us!

@RiffRaff Bookstore / Bar / Cafe - 60 Valley Street, Suite 107A, Providence, RI

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