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“if you look around, if you look outside the bubble that privilege has created where you don’t have to worry about gun violence on a regular basis, you’ll see it’s a public epidemic that we ignore.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“My mom was the only one in her family who didn’t practice Christianity. She believed in some higher power but didn’t like the cultishness of organized religion, even when it was what knit most of the Korean community”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
“The feminism at the University of Chicago on offer to the low-income Black women living in the neighborhood might as well have been a scene from The Help.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“When they told us…We just sat in the car and looked at each other. All we could say was, I guess this is it.”
― Crying in H Mart
― Crying in H Mart
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