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"“[gentrifiers] were complicated locusts, they ate up everything in sight, but they meant well […] drawn by the promise of empty land and easy business, the opportunity available among the ruins of other peoples’ lives”. adrienne maree brown’s prose is as vibrant as her worldbuilding — Octavia Butler is alive in these sci-fi tales !" — Aug 08, 2025 02:22PM
"“[gentrifiers] were complicated locusts, they ate up everything in sight, but they meant well […] drawn by the promise of empty land and easy business, the opportunity available among the ruins of other peoples’ lives”. adrienne maree brown’s prose is as vibrant as her worldbuilding — Octavia Butler is alive in these sci-fi tales !" — Aug 08, 2025 02:22PM
“People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth”
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“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.”
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“If you walk through life and don't help anybody, you haven't had much of a life”
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“In this culture we celebrate boys through the lexicon of violence. ‘You're killing it,’ 'you’re making a killing,’ ‘smash them,’ ‘blow them up,’ ‘you went into that game guns blazing,’ and I think it’s worth it to ask the question what happens to our men and boys when the only way they can valuate themselves is through the lexicon of death and destruction?
I think when they see themselves as only worthwhile when they are capable of destroying things, it’s inevitable that we arrive at a masculinity that is toxic”
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I think when they see themselves as only worthwhile when they are capable of destroying things, it’s inevitable that we arrive at a masculinity that is toxic”
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“If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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