Bee Reads

“but these leaders traffic in respectability politics—the idea that if black (or other marginalized) people simply behave in “culturally approved” ways, if we mimic the dominant culture, it will be more difficult to suffer the effects of racism.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“maybe trigger warnings allow people to avoid learning how to deal with triggers and getting help.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

“acknowledgment of my privilege is not a denial of the ways I have been and am marginalized, the ways I have suffered.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist