Nola

“Because I didn't move here to fall in love. The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect. it's not admirable to want love it just is.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers

“Perhaps most important of all, and this is so central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal." Prisons are constituted as "normal." It takes a lot of work to persuade people to think beyond the bars, and to be able to imagine a world without prisons and to struggle for the abolition of imprisonment as the dominant mode of punishment.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“The idea of drowning doesn’t bother me, though, since we’re made of water anyway. It’s kind of like your body overflowing with itself.”
― Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

“Soyons claire: que l'on ne tolère pas la violence sexiste est la moindre des choses, mais gare aux effets de hiérarchisation de ses victimes, qui amène à considérer certaines insultes sexistes comme pires que d'autres parce qu'elles comparent des femmes à d'autres femmes. Une double peine pèse alors sur les TdS (travailleuses de sexe) en particulier, condamnées de tous cotés et cumulant les stigmates liés à leur genre (pour les misogynes) et à leur activité (pour presque tout le monde).”
― LAGORGETTE DOMINIQUE