XMTR Festival Selects: 1001 Stabs

Lina Prestwood (UK 2025)

8 min

To be born in Gaza is to be born already bleeding.
Before you take your first step, a blade is pressed gently, precisely, against your soul, the first of 1001 stabs

Produced by Lina Prestwood
Written in August 2025 by
F. (Gaza) 
Read by
F. and Lyana Mansour (USA)
With thanks to 
Fatima Zahra Gahzli (Turkey)


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