Love Letters to Palestine

“Love is our method of liberation.”

Drawing on the form of the love letter as an ethnographic, aesthetic, and political modality, Love Letters to Palestine expounds upon the Palestinian Feminist Collective’s (PFC) invitation to understand and practice love as a decolonial method.

Members of the PFC were asked to contribute a line of a love letter to Palestine along with a photograph. The call and response of the love-letter form places diasporic subjects into intimate connection with each other alongside themes of land, loss, dreams, longing, home, family, memory, love, and return. These themes explore the distance and closeness between Palestinian and Arab women and queer kin from different spaces, generations, and positionalities to map alternative geographies of relationality and belonging. Love Letters invites the reader to engage with a still-emergent archive of Palestinian feminist rebellion and futurity.

Mobilizing love as a force builds and opens space for oppositional consciousness (Sandoval 2000), enabling us to see the interconnectedness of struggle in times when those in power want us to avoid building those ties.