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“It was disorienting, albeit sobering, to realize that advocating for Palestine, like all things, is entrenched in and informed by capitalism, that there was a market for our suffering, something that, for many, may have already been self-evident.”
― Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
― Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
“The idea is to spit out the bait and spit at the accusation. To demystify and reject what it is they demand of us: perfect victimhood and perfect surrender.”
― Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
― Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
“I am sorry that the only way we have been taught to heal is to hurt.”
― Femme in Public
― Femme in Public
“We forget that belief has little to do with truth. People tend to believe the powerful, the compelling, not the sincere. The truth, that which is factual and historically accurate, is irrelevant in the face of the dominant, institutionally mainstreamed narratives that forge their truth.”
― Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
― Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.”
― The Laugh of the Medusa
― The Laugh of the Medusa
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