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The child’s black hair is tangled, and there are faint streaks on her face and arms – dried sweat, perhaps, or soot. Her pink sneakers are worn to the sole. We lock eyes for just a moment before she leaps up and struts – hips swaying – to the opposite end of the stage, as if on a catwalk. Jarred, I flip through my program to find: “Arya Rose Lohmor is 8 years old and loves to perform. In 2014, she walked the ramp in the India Fashion Kids Show in Delhi, India.” Arya plays Little Amal in The Jungle, directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin. Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s The Jungle premiered in London in December 2017, followed by St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn and San Francisco’s Curran Theater…

What follows is a love letter written by the Palestinian Feminist Collective. The Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) is a US-based body of Palestinian and Arab women and feminists committed to Palestinian social and political liberation through a praxis guided by anti-colonial work and life-affirming decolonization for Palestinians in the homeland and the diaspora. By sharing this Love Letter, we invite our readers to help envision a world built on love and freedom—one in which freedom is guided by unconditional acts of loving without shame and without apology. We are guided by a deep love and respect for the people and lands of Palestine and we weep alongside them while working and envisioning a better present and future for Palestinians.