However, within a few weeks following October 8, we realized that hosting the event was impossible amid the bloodshed in Palestine and the Israeli aggression on Lebanese towns in the South. It was impossible to maintain business as usual at a time when two million Palestinians across the border were being bombed, starved, and made homeless at an unprecedented scale. We decided to postpone the event to ensure the safety of participants and reject the normalization of genocide. Our community had been immobilized by witnessing the sheer magnitude of violence experienced by our people, stunting us into a critical moment of reckoning.