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Tell Your Story in a Community Zine!
We are now collecting submissions for our upcoming, quarterly Community Zine, No Single Thread. This zine is a call to action for artists, writers, and neighbors who believe that small collective gestures matter. Your story of sorrow, strength, resilience, grief, growth, etc. can be in any format of your choosing. Send in your short/long-form stories, recipes, poems, comics, art, ponderings, epiphanies, and any other form of storytelling.
Want to remain anonymous in print? No problem. Need help with translating? We got you.
Email ana@michianavoices with questions or to submit your story.
Our Mission
Michiana Voices for Middle East Peace formed to re[story] our world by connecting with voices crowded out by dominant narratives that threaten the existence of lives, communities, and our shared future.
Photo: Palestinian Journalist Motaz Azaiza
What’s with all the watermelons?
Perhaps you’ve been seeing watermelons everywhere, from clothes to pins to stickers to social media. Do people just really like the tasty fruit? Maybe. And there’s a deeper story to tell.
Gaza and the West Bank were banned from displaying the Palestinian Flag in 1967. In the 1980s the watermelon became a way for Palestinians to show resistance against their oppression.
Why watermelon specifically? Simple. The colors in the Palestinian flag are red, black, white and green. Red fruit. Black seeds. White and green rind. It was, and is, a way to show solidarity while avoiding censorship.