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

“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

“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

“How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The late Native historian Jack Forbes always stressed that while living persons are not responsible for what their ancestors did, they are responsible for the society they live in, which is a product of that past. Assuming this responsibility provides a means of survival and liberation. Everyone and everything in the world is affected, for the most part negatively, by US dominance and intervention, often violently through direct military means or through proxies.”
― Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz