We uphold radical love as an act of liberation that grounds our collective resistance.
It is both a militant defiance to colonial violence, and a life-affirming revolutionary practice of building feminist futures. We build relationships based in love that sustain and nurture our people, land, and movement. Love enables us to contend with both intimate and state violences to which we are subjected and to center healing as integral to restorative accountability. We believe that caring, nurturing, and resisting are inseparable and are essential to our joy, well-being, and rest. We practice radical love as a necessity for survival and as a principle for revolutionary world-making.
by Hiba Walid Yassine
Hiba Walid Yassine is a Palestinian graphic designer based in Lebanon. She belongs to Saforeyye village (a small town near Nazareth) from where her grandparents were uprooted and expelled to Lebanon. She graduated in 2015, and made her first design the same year, when a Lebanese newspaper launched a contest to design Palestinian currency. As a Palestinian artist and refugee that dreams of returning to her homeland, Hiba has dedicated her art to PALESTINE – to its culture and history, to shedding light on its cities, towns and villages in the language of art that everyone can speak and understand. Hiba affirms that Palestine is her homeland that she has never seen, but that it is always in her heart and in art. The Palestinian Heart is a piece in which Hiba illustrates how our hearts beat for Palestine. She was inspired by an Arabic verse that says: “My homeland is the right side of my heart.” This heart carries Palestinian embroidery on each section and the map of Palestine in the middle.
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