ZinesForFalastin is a volunteer-run organization making digital and limited-print zines with artists in Gaza and launching our first curated call for essays from the larger community.

**Transnational Solidarities: South Asia & Palestine**
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A collaborative call for first person narrative essay submissions (under 1000 words) sharing stories of transnational solidarities with Palestine from folks with ties to South Asia (via birth, current residence, or diasporic). We are looking for essays that speak about the portals into and the shape of your solidarity with the interconnected fights towards the liberation of Palestine. This call is born from the ruptures of disillusion and betrayal from the individual, collective, and systemic state-level silences, suppressions, attacks, and erasures, of pro-Palestinian and anti-zionist voices and activism. Our recent anticolonial pasts suggest we must be acting otherwise. Our present capital-imperial ties and homegrown and zioamerica-allied neocolonial forces however suggest otherwise. 

How do we find and sustain our voices and convictions through these manufactured confusions? How do we remain committed as we are heavily surveilled, criminalized, limited in how we can show up individually or in community? We would be honoured to hear from those who have been finding creative and courageous ways through. From those who have been acting with intention towards making material dents to support our kin in Falasteen via mutual aid initiatives. From those who have been showing up to engage local communities via mobilization and organization, via storytelling and culture. From anyone who has made relational, material, career, or otherwise sacrifices towards speaking truth to power from wherever they are.

In short, we are looking to hear from anyone who has found it impossible to look away and have been doing everything within their power, and more, to radically alter their being and possibilities towards standing and acting in solidarities with our kin in Palestine. Through this first attempt at creating and curating this collection, we hope to strengthen old and weave new connective tissues for enduring in our commitments to a liberated Palestine. 

The essays can include research integration, historical notes or contemporary works and examples, i.e. we love citations. Or can draw from archival memories, such as personal or collective ancestral archives and quotidian tales, interviews, i.e. we believe in fighting against the erasures of histories of our interconnected anticolonial fights. We are looking for essays that uphold the principles of Palestinian liberation (al-thawabet), and written with anti-zionist, anti-imperial and anti-colonial lens.

The zine will be compiled and curated by the zinesforfalastin collective and friends and available digitally and in limited-print runs. Please send your essays by May 31, 2026.  

** please note, we will work with you to publish anonymously if you desire **

Submission details: Please send your essay (upto 1000 words) to zinesforfalastin@proton.me. Please include a short third-person bio (~100 words), or reach out to us if you wish to publish anonymously or under a pseudonym. Include the essay and bio in the same document (**entitled Last Name_Z4F_Transnational**) and send as an attachment to the email address. Acceptable formats are .docx, .doc, .odt, .pdf. 

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