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Blood Orange

Yaffa As

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Blood Orange is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against the background of ongoing displacement and genocide of indigenous Palestinians.

The collection came quickly and relentlessly, drawn from the depths of the author's soul during a movement for a free Palestine and aligned with a solar eclipse. It beckons readers to re-evaluate what is perceived as immutable and to imagine pathways toward Utopia.

Blood Orange—the title an homage to the Yaffa Oranges (which were appropriated first by the British and subsequently by Israel)—refers to the author themselves, their homeland and blood spilled in the name of settler colonialism. This highly charged and cathartic body of work confronts the anguish and loss inflicted by genocide but also embraces a vision of a world free of it.

The poems within Blood Orange were a means of working through and processing the grief caused by recent events and serve as an act of protest and defiance against settler colonialism as a whole.

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Jun 20

🏳️‍🌈🔮look into my eyes …. i know what you want to read.

here are some mind reader queer book recs for pride!

📚 books mentioned: - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi - Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White - Fawn’s Blood by Hal Schrieve - The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - Station Six by S.J. Klapecki - An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon - The Maiden and Her Monster by Maddie Martinez - Somadina by Akwaeke Emezi - Dauntless by Elisa A. Bonnin - On Sundays She Picked Flowers by Yah-Yah Scholfield - This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone - In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado - The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez - Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino - Blood Orange by Yaffa As - Bless the Blood: A Cancer Memoir by Walela Nehanda - Death’s Country by R.M. Romero - Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories by GennaRose Nethercott - Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic: An LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fantasy Anthology of Unforgettable Adventures edited by g. haron davis - Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edit by Joshua Whitehead

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Nov 26 2025

welcome to your bookish holiday gift guide!

welcome to your bookish holiday gift guide! featuring some books that don’t get nearly as much love and appreciation as they should.

📚 books mentioned: - The Coven Tendency by Zoe Hana Mikuta - Arc of the Universe by Nikki Alexander - Detained: A Boy’s Journal of Survival and Resilience by D. Esperanza and Gerardo Iván Morales - Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Love Be Damned by Briana Garrett - The Necessity of Rain by Sarah Chorn - Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us by Anna Malaika Tubbs - Blood Orange by Yaffa As - Death’s Country by R.M. Romero

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Aug 30 2025

🍉 Read For Palestine this September!

please be sure to follow the organizers Naseerah (opacarophvlia) and Ross (@readsbyross) for more information. their fundraiser is also in the ⛓️‍💥place on my profile.

📚 books mentioned: - Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa - Blood Orange by Mx. Yaffa - Squire by Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh - Minor Detail by Adania Shibli - Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

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