Monika Holmes

“I learned about gender through shame.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“You can’t drink a green smoothie and cure the damage of unrelenting stress and the low grade terror that comes with possibly being attacked, humiliated or harmed at any moment for simply existing.”
― Dalia Kinsey, Decolonizing Wellness

“I know the importance of education because my pens and books were taken from me by force.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“The word “cannibal,” the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh and from whom the word “Caribbean” originated. By virtue of being Caribbean, all “West Indian” people are already, in a purely linguistic sense, born savage.”
― Safiya Sinclair, Cannibal