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Yesterday, two teenagers armed with weapons stormed the Islamic Center of San Diego shooting and killing three people before taking their own lives.

The incident comes amid heightened Islamophobia in the US, where politicians and commentators have repeatedly launched broadsides targeting the Muslim community.

US Congressman Randy Fine, an ally of President Donald Trump, said late last year that Muslims should “be destroyed”.

Later on Monday, Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist close to Trump, said the ICSD (the Islamic Center of San Diego) should be raided by the FBI and immigration authorities. She shared a 2023 social media post by the wife of the mosque’s imam, accusing Israel of killing children.

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According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, Israel has killed 2,988 people, 58 children in the past week, 9,210 injured and over 1.5 million are displaced. Israel’s signature genocide from Gaza to Lebanon must be stopped. This is a crime against all of humanity.

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Mothers have always been political. Mother’s Day began as a movement rooted in collective action against war, nurturing the future and teaching the revolution. In the 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation for Peace, abolitionist and feminist Julia Howe pleads “Arise, then, women of this day! … From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says “Disarm, Disarm!”

This Mother’s Day, we honor the mother behind and , Uthor of a mother of ideas, education, change, and collective action. It begins with how we educate ourselves, each other, and our children.

She asks: How do you talk to your children about war?

As a child refugee and war survivor, still surviving, Céline Semaan has dedicated her work to creative resistance and systems change for collective liberation. She connects the dots across difficult truths, insisting on our shared humanity and our responsibility to care for both people and the more-than-human world.

In the words of Toni Morrison: Art is dangerous. She reminds us that art is a “bloody” endeavor, it tells the truth, disrupts, and threatens those who seek control or deception.

Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers making dangerous art, educating the next generation, transforming their communities, healing one another, mothering their neighbors, and nurturing movements for change. To those feeding their communities with ideas and nourishment, planting seeds, both literal and metaphorical.

To the mothers who are healing and dismantling what must be undone, all at once.

Mother’s Day is a celebration of a simple truth: without mothers, none of us would be here.

Photographs by Alizayuh Vigil ❤️
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