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The Drowning Game

by Barbara Nickless (Goodreads Author)

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May 07, 2026 02:52PM

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Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria

by Noo Saro-Wiwa

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May 03, 2026 02:29PM

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Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

by Alice Wong

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Lyndy Dower said: " I'm half way through this book by the amazing Alice Wong. Everyone should read it! Ableism is one of those invisible 'isms'. We abled body folx take our privilege so for granted. Reading about the oppression and discrimination Alice had to go through ...more "

Feb 25, 2026 03:20PM · see review

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Lyndy ’s Quotes

“How do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? —bell hooks”
― Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

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“If taking a stand makes you a nutcase, be the nuttiest case that has ever walked.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

tags: accountability, complacency, complicit, social-issues, social-responsibility, social-work, speak-up, stand-up, take-a-stand, taking-a-stand

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“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis

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“I don't think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it's only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

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“I feel that if we don't take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist who is the perpetrator, then we won't ever succeed in eradicating racism.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

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