FROM ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. 

(on stage, the small apartment. there is still no time. another moment flickers into existence but no one is invited. there are all the things that others left over: shoes, and shirts, and cats, and recipes, and books. all far too sacred to leave al…
 

FROM ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. 

fable:Once, Antigone sat in the barracks, now depopulated by a magnitude. In the light of a wavering drone, she held her hands in her head, depopulated of tears. Every follicle of hair on her head was a loss. Oh God the weight immovable as a pit. An…

Fargo Tbakhi (he/him) is a queer Palestinian american performance artist currently based in DC. He is the winner of the 2018 Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Arts Prize, a Pushcart nominee, and a 2020 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Fellow. His writing can be found in Foglifter, Gay Magazine, The Shallow Ends, Mizna, Peach Mag and elsewhere. His solo show, My Father, My Martyr, and Me: Postcolonial Instructions for Loving the Palestinian Body has been programmed at OUTsider Fest 2020 and at INTER-SECTION Solo Fest 2020, and is available for booking. Find him on twitter @YouKnowFargo.