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I couldn’t imagine what she’d gone through—how much of my mother’s life I missed because I was a child—but I wondered if that was what changed her.
“It is a set of symbiotic relationships among correctional communities, transnational corporations, media conglomerates, guards’ unions, and legislative and court agendas. If it is true that the contemporary meaning of punishment is fashioned through these relationships, then the most effective abolitionist strategies will contest these relationships and propose alternatives that pull them apart. What, then, would it mean to imagine a system in which punishment is not allowed to become the source of corporate profit? How can we imagine a society in which race and class are not primary determinants of punishment? Or one in which punishment itself is no longer the central concern in the making of justice?”
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
“My fear of anger taught me nothing. Your fear of that anger will teach you nothing, also.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.”
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Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
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534 books
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461 books
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176 books
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228 books
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573 books
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320 books
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