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“I felt like a bruised burden, and in my refusal to become a victim, I neglected the tenderness of being a survivor”
― Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

“the system fails us again and again and creates the illusion that we are the ones who are failing”
― Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

“An intersectional approach to feminism requires understanding that too often mainstream feminism ignores that Black women and other women of color are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine of hate.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“To love someone is to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body