17/09/2026
Don't get me wrong, we need all the allies we can get and Macklemore is one of the great ones.
Simply put, when you are part of the Levantine diaspora, you are on a daily basis exposed to journalists, politicians, public figures who dehumanize our peoples all the time.
And this actually never goes away. The media and the powerful don't wait for a celebrity feud to go on with the same dehumanizing rhetoric.
And so when these feuds erupt, when a respectable famous ally takes a stand for our cause, the attention that it draws to the horrors our peoples go through does 2 things simultaneously:
- brings us hope, pushes us to rejoice and to feel that there is a "win" to take here, and thanks to give, and pray for more
- but it also adds to the emotional and physical fatigue that come with never having had a break from the dehumanization, the blatant racism that have become part of our background noise, but also the fatigue that comes from knowing that for now, the systems in power are against us.
Holding those truths together, sometimes feels like being split between two identities, the hopeful and the helpless.
Do you ever feel this too ? Let me know in the comments.
💜 I am Dania, 🇫🇷🇱🇧🇹🇳 grief counselor and transgenerational analyst. My therapeutic approach is both decolonial and spiritual. For more content like this, follow me.
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