Brian Earp

“The causes related to women in the global South that capture Western fascination are often those whose discussion participates in justifying—or at least does not challenge—imperialist domination.”
― Serene J. Khader, Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic

“No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Onora O’Neill (1987) argues that idealization occurs when, in the process of abstraction required by theorizing, we represent objects in ways that distort them. The distortion usually occurs by falsely attributing (putatively) positive features to the object or by downplaying negative ones. As feminist philosophers have consistently argued, practices of abstracting about objects in order to theorize about them risk—under unjust background conditions, at least—not random forms of distortion but rather emphasizing attributes that are associated with the dominant or that justify domination.”
― Serene J. Khader, Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic

“The safest communities are not the ones with the most police, prisons, or electronic monitors, but the ones with quality schools, health care, housing, plentiful jobs, and strong social networks that allow families not merely to survive but to thrive. What our communities need and deserve is no mystery.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness