Ailey | Bisexual Bookshelf

“Sorting subjects into any classification can force patterns to show up, and when these patterns are reinforced by political realities, they become institutionalized.”
― Alice Sparkly Kat, Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor

“I wonder what’s worse, living in the deep marrow of grief or pretending the person you’re grieving never existed in the first place.”
― Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

“In a landscape that sees the spectacle of financial theater as more real than production or natural resources - a landscape afraid that drops in the value of gold stock would be more detrimental to the nation than the real exploitation of Black laborers in the mining industries - capital is more real than life.”
― Alice Sparkly Kat, Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor

“In liberal societies where identities are performative and surveilled, you’re never sure that what you see is what you get. Within liberal societies, authenticity becomes elevated to morality.”
― Alice Sparkly Kat, Postcolonial Astrology: Reading the Planets through Capital, Power, and Labor