Derek Newman-Stille

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Derek is Currently Reading

Derek Newman-Stille is currently reading

The Chronicles of Faerie (The Chronicles of Faerie, #1-3)

by O.R. Melling (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 24, 2013 07:40PM

“Falling in love with another human is terrifying. As our language insists, romantic love is always preceded by a fall, the necessity of losing control and potentially hurting yourself in the process of connecting with another”
― Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men.

tags: fear, language, lgbtq, love, queer, romance, trans

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“There are times when so much talk or writing, so many ideas seem to stand in the way, to block the awareness that for the oppressed, the exploited, the dominated, domination is not just a subject for radical discourse, for books. It is about pain – the pain of hunger, the pain of over-work, the pain of degradation and dehumanization, the pain of loneliness, the pain of loss, the pain of isolation, the pain of exile... Even before the words, we remember the pain.”
― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

tags: ideas, oppression, pain, social-justice, writing

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“We make the revolutionary history, telling the past as we have learned it mouth-to-mouth, telling the present as we see, know, and feel it in our heats and with our words.”
― bell hooks, Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

tags: revolution, storytelling, telling-truths

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“When we were children, everything scared us. The harmless dragonfly, for example, was called 'the devil's darning needle.' The creature hovered all around us int he summertime, ready to sew up the ears and lips of disobedient children. To us, even a common snipe, owl, or bittern calling from the marsh, might be a voice from the other side.”
― Tom Dawe, Spirited Away: Fairy stories of old Newfoundland

tags: childhood, dragonflies, fairies, fairy-tales, fear, newfoundland

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“First Nations and science fiction don't usually go together. In fact, they could be considered rather unusual topics to mention in the same sentence, much like fish and bicycles.... To me, sci-fi was a world of possibilities. As a fan of writing, why shouldn't my fascination extend to such unconventional works? It was still writing, still literature in all its glory, but here they used different tools to explore the human condition, be they aliens, advanced technology, or other such novel approaches.... I wanted to take traditional (a buzzword in the Native community) science-fiction characteristics and filter them through an Aboriginal consciousness.”
― Drew Hayden Taylor, Take Us To Your Chief And Other Stories

tags: first-nations, indigenous, possibilities, science-fiction, writing

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