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“Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violence. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.”
― The City in the Middle of the Night
― The City in the Middle of the Night
“There are seasons of life when we just can’t get all of our needs met, but the mental shift of seeing rest not as luxury but as a valid need helps you get creative, or at least validates it’s okay to mourn how difficult life is right now.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
“I smile tightly, but say nothing. He is trying to protect me, in the simple way men are always trying to protect women: by stealing away their freedom.”
― Deathless Divide
― Deathless Divide
“When I ask you to stop making innovative art and start making vulnerable art, I am asking you to stop trying to make something new and start making something you. Your worldview, your emotions, your pain, your joy, your relationships, your noticings, your culture, your heritage, your ancestry, your fears, your desires, your trauma, your love. Your truth.”
― We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something
― We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something
“That is the life-changing result of internalizing that you do not exist to serve your space, your space exists to serve you.”
― How to Keep House While Drowning
― How to Keep House While Drowning
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