Jasmine K

“When wealthy people create foundations, they’re exempt from paying taxes on their wealth. Thus foundations essentially rob the public of monies that should be owed to them and give back very little of what is taken in lost taxes. In addition, their funds are derived from profits resulting from the exploitation of labor. That is, corporations become rich by exploiting their workers. Corporate profits are then put into foundations in order to provide “relief” to workers that are the result of corporate practices in the first place.”
― Incite! Women of Color Against Violence, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

“Dylan Rodriguez defines the non-profit industrial complex as “a set of symbiotic relationships that link political and financial technologies of state and owning class control with surveillance over public political ideology, including and especially emergent progressive and leftist social movements.”
― Incite! Women of Color Against Violence, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

“to the two men who yelled: “that’s a man in a dress! hey
everyone that’s a man in a dress!” while pointing at me
on sixth avenue:
i wanted to turn around and point back, shout:
“hey everyone that’s an insecure man, that’s an insecure
man! that’s an insecure man!”
― Alok Vaid-Menon

“He speaks of nothing but you,” Deng said in a quieter voice. “No—that’s not quite true. He speaks of many things, but you are part of each of them.”
― G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King