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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Dorothy Roberts

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The racial imbalance in New York City’s foster care population was also mind-boggling: out of forty-two thousand children in the system at the end of 1997, only thirteen hundred were white, though a majority of the city’s children were ...more

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“Darkness, you know, is relative.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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“I imagined I must not speak, in order to preserve, impossibly, my chance to speak. I nearly wretched on the feelings I forced myself to swallow.”
― Katie Langston, Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace

tags: oppression, sexism

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“When I say Queer love, I mean love that makes its own rules. Love that exists without borders and thrives without clean lines. Love that creates more space than it takes up.”
― Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

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“Maybe confusion is as queer as it gets.”
― Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

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