Amanda Jacobsmeyer

“We must start asking what we want white manhood to be, and what we will no longer accept. We must stop rewarding violence and oppression. We must stop confusing bullies with leaders. We must stop telling women and people of color that the only path to success lies in emulating white male dominance.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,” he writes, “there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

“But when I tell my sons that they should be feminists, I don’t try to sell it to them based on the benefits they will reap. I tell them what I also tell white people who are looking for reasons to be antiracist: Yes, it will offer some real benefits for you. Your life will be better in many ways when we work to end oppression. But it will not always benefit you. Sometimes it may seem like justice is disadvantaging you when the privileges you’ve routinely enjoyed are threatened. But you have to do it anyway, because you believe that women and people of color are human beings and that we deserve to be free from oppression, even when that means you personally have to give some things up.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

“I now know that true chillness can also come from being so demoralized by American politics that you cannot care about men.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men