Sophie

“You can look at any one of the crises surrounding us - whether it's the climate emergency, the genocide in Gaza or rising inequality - and just see a reason to give up the hope that human beings are capable of bettering ourselves as a species. But the odds have always been stacked against justice. You'd never have bet on the success of the abolitionists, or the suffrage movement, or the civil rights struggle, or the fight for abortion access. But courage and collective action are capable of wondrous things. We have an obligation to resist the temptation of passivity and despair, while also seeing the scale of the challenge around us clearly.”
― Ash Sarkar, Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War

“Imagine if we were to take domestic abuse seriously. Imagine if we acted to prosecute such men, to remove them from the streets, or, as the bare minimum, to take better legislative action in certain countries to prevent them from accessing firearms. Women have always been the canaries in the coal mines, quietly singing. But we are so used to seeing them die at men's hands, so used to justifying and excusing it as normal or 'understandable', that it wouldn't occur to us to consider this enough of an aberration to raise alarm. And so women continue to suffer and die in silence.”
― Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody is Talking About

“Among such misunderstandings and struggles in communication, how many are caused by a lack of interest in understanding how somebody different to you understands the world? And how much of that attitude is fuelled by an ableist perception of autistic people being deficient in some way, and therefore not worth the trouble of empathy?”
― Jodie Hare, Autism Is Not A Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity

“Not daring to rock the boat risks us sinking with it”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal [Hardcover] By Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté & You Are a Badass By Jen Sincero 2 Books Collection Set