This is 42 🌟 What a fever dream A few days late, but so full of gratitude for all my dearests who made this such a special week. I had the gift of spending the actual day on the jury for @blackstarfest’s shorts competition - which reminded me what a gift it is to work in documentary and narrative change with my favorite humans @multitudefilms. And @julie_rodgers brought me coffee and GF donuts *in bed* to start the day and fuel the year 🥰 Amidst the devastation of bearing witness to, voicing dissent against, and blocking highways, occupying train stations, and filling the streets for Gaza and over 300 days of genocide, I do not take a birthday, safety, holding my beloveds, watching big-hearted films, or gathering with and nourishing friends for granted. This world has been robbed of 40k Palestinian lives in Gaza, while watching their deaths on livestream and we will never be the same. As I enter my 42nd year on this beautiful, broken planet, I am holding both the energy of those refusing genocide and resisting state violence as well as the silence of those comfortable in complicity.