Archive - Songs of Revolution

We Didn’t Know

“Wir haben es nicht gewusst,”

May 1 •

Rebecca Rijsdijk

April 2025

The Ones We Set Free

Loving someone does not always mean you get to keep them.

Apr 30 •

Rebecca Rijsdijk

Hope is the Heaviest Thing

I hold out my hands

Apr 27 •

Rebecca Rijsdijk

Or why the West cares more about one old white dude dying than all the children in Gaza being torn to bits.

Apr 25 •

Rebecca Rijsdijk

Every Time I Get On the Streets

(or: 'Not All Men' Can Go Fuck Themselves)

Apr 22 •

Rebecca Rijsdijk

Fuck Katy Perry in Space

She kissed the stars while the rest of us were choking on the smoke of late-stage capitalism.

Apr 21 •

Rebecca Rijsdijk

Don’t Tell Me I Am Angry

tell me why you are not

Apr 20 •

Rebecca Rijsdijk

Not Yours to Name

Everyone wants to be the first,

Apr 18 •

Rebecca Rijsdijk

Not Everything Is a Poem

Some Things are just Empty Rooms

Apr 16 •

Rebecca Rijsdijk

You Don’t Owe Life Gratitude

And fuck all the self-help gurus selling you this shit.

Apr 16 •

Rebecca Rijsdijk

They Kept Bombing Anyway

For Gaza, for every lost child, for every mother left holding only dust.

Apr 15 •

Rebecca Rijsdijk

On the Fluidity of Truth

Truth moves. It slips out of definition. It belongs to no one.

Apr 13 •

Rebecca Rijsdijk

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