Colleen

“I want to grab her and confess that I'm an unbeliever. That being on that machine makes me feel like I'm running in some sucking substance worse than mud. I can find no foothold, no traction. That I feel out of control, inches from the lip of the abyss. That while we've been sitting here, there's this angry, hungry maw in me that is fathoms deep. But even though Ruth's only a hair thinner than I am, she's way on the other side of the fat girl spectrum, looking at me from the safe, slightly smug distance of her own control and conviction.”
― Mona Awad, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl

“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.

“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

“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