by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Two years ago today, the three of us began Crips for eSims for Gaza. Alice, are you reading this? (We know you are.) It’s the 3rd xmas Leah has had a “Free Palestine In Our Lifetime” sign up w/ their holiday decorations. It’s the third xmas Jane has been sending & topping up eSIMs, now w/ many others. Two years ago, we launched Crips on Christmas, just two months & two weeks or so into the accelerated g-side, as a crip effort of hope, solidarity & radical love.
Today, on the two-year anniversary of our project, we continue crip-steadfast. We’re launching something special we’ve been working on, something we’re grateful Alice was able to see before her passing & was excited for too: our official logo!
The phenomenal @fleshknife designed these collaboratively w/ fellow eSimmers, beginning w/ doodles on a big sheet of paper. We thought of Toni Cade Bambara’s words: “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.” We thought of how the eSIM chip sits tall w/ dignity like the land & the people of the land.
This logo was inspired by the oranges of Palestine, the routes, fishing nets, & olive leaves of kufiyas fuelling resistance & connection, & the brilliant logo of our friends @gazaonline_. Sunny also channeled the art of Barabones, who designed many of our posters, & the colours in @ndn_bebop’s posters.
Despite a “ceasefire,” our work is far from done. Daily we see evidence of continued violence – over 400 Palestinians killed by the IOF since Oct 10th, including 157 children. Send us a gift via our Chuffed/tell a friend to keep us out the red!
Alice taught us a lot about crip steadfastness & adaptation in the face of uncertainty & oppression. In so many ways we never thought we’d be here, still doing this two years later, weathering the storm of grief from losing Alice from this earthly plane. In other ways, maybe this logo is part of the good in that steadfastness–that we are continuing as part of building alternative systems that, god willing, will lead to a thriving, free & autonomous Palestine.
Til freedom. In love & disabled Asian persistence,
Alice, Jane & Leah <3
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