Bhoomika

“What is the difference between the women's movement we had and the one we have now, if it can be called a movement? I think the difference is liberalism. Where feminism was collective, liberalism is individualistic. We have been reduced to that. Where feminism is socially based and critical, liberalism is naturalistic, attributing the product of women's oppression to women's natural sexuality, making it "ours". Where feminism criticizes the ways in which women have been socially determined in an attempt to change that determination, liberalism is voluntaristic, meaning it acts like we have choices that we do not have. Where feminism is based on material reality, liberalism is based some ideal realm in the head. And where feminism is relentlessly political, about power and powerlessness, the best that can be mustered by this nouveau movement is a watered-down form of moralism: this is good, this is bad, no analysis of power or powerlessness at all.”
― Catharine A. MacKinnon, Liberalism and the Death of Feminism

“Dear Uncle, is everything you love foreign or are you foreign to everything you love?”
― Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

“And when once in a while a person strolling past stood there making fun of the old number and talking of a swindle, that was in a sense the stupidest lie which indifference and innate maliciousness could invent, for the hunger artist was not being deceptive—he was working honestly-but the world was cheating him of his reward.”
― Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist

“The white people's world seeks to destroy community. Once they destroy the community, then it is easy to destroy the individual.”
― Nemonte Nenquimo, We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People