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The Pen and The Sword

The Pen and The Sword: Zaina Arafat explores unattainability, internalized homophobia and generational trauma in her novel, You Exist Too Much

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Zaina Arafat hopes that her book, You Exist Too Much, challenges our ideas and assumptions about what it means to be queer, female and Arab-American; and gives us insight into ourselves.

The first time Taya was on the radio was a KVNF pledge drive promo recorded in 1998, she was 5. It went something like this, “I like KVNF because it’s fun to listen to music” she goes on to say, “music is like a dream”.