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Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

by Robert Chapman

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Women, Race & Class

by Angela Y. Davis

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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

by Kristen R. Ghodsee (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today

All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen

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Today we find a similar entanglement of health status with wealth status, of medical wisdom with pseudoscientific quackery and fad dieting, and of a struggle for control over women’s lives that begins with controlling their appetites.

Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)

by Suzanne Collins

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Maya’s Quotes

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
― James Baldwin

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“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie

tags: fear, life, science, understanding

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“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: metaphysics, philosophy, science, sense-of-wonder, spirituality

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“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: connection, evolution, humanity, humility, life, love, meaning, people, purpose, vastness

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“once I lived daily among people who suffered injustice and came to understand how much injustice is an all-pervading system, I realized that only grassroots people who have nothing to gain from this present system can conceive of a different one.”
― Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century

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