Colleen

“it felt a bit like these companies were playing with the ideas of equity and advancement for women, which is not the same as actually doing it.”
― Marisa Meltzer, Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier

“My perspective on this is often condemned as ‘carceral feminism’ by those who favour the abolition of prisons and policing, typically on the grounds of racial justice. My response to this accusation is that the women and children who make up the vast majority of rape victims are disproportionately likely to be both poor and non-white.”
― Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

“I am very self-conscious about the way that I look, in part because I am a woman who also happens to be conscious. Since birth, every commercial, every magazine, every piece of media I have encountered has socialized me to hate every body part.”
― Ziwe Fumudoh, Black Friend: Essays

“I demand to be taken as seriously as a clown.”
― Ziwe, Black Friend: Funny, incisive essays on navigating Blackness, tokenism, and friendship in predominantly white spaces.