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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
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“What’s the problem with being “not racist”? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: “I am not a racist, but neither am I aggressively against racism.” But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “antiracist.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
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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.”
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“Music contains zero alcohol, yet it gets people high.”
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“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”
― See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
― See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
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