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The need to call this thing “good” and this thing “bad,” this thing “white” and this thing “black,” was an impulse that Effia did not understand. In her village, everything was everything. Everything bore the weight of everything else.
“To operate within the matrix of
power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.”
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.”
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
“Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”
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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
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“This is how we all come to the world, James. Weak and needy, desperate to learn how to be a person.”
― Homegoing
― Homegoing
“The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.”
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Farida’s 2024 Year in Books
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