QueerNightOwl

“It's clear that equality doesn't quite cut it. Asking for a sliver of disproportionate power is too polite a request. I don't want to be included. Instead, I want to question who created the standard in the first place.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“Yes. I killed him. And buried her in flowers," I say. "And I sang her to sleep.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“What I am interested in doing now is suggesting how the general liberal consensus that “true” knowledge is fundamentally nonpolitical (and conversely, that overtly political knowledge is not “true” knowledge) obscures the highly if obscurely organized political circumstances obtaining when knowledge is produced. No one is helped in understanding this today when the adjective “political” is used as a label to discredit any work for daring to violate the protocol of pretended suprapolitical objectivity.”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism