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"it’s insane to see the rippling effects of colonisation persist to this day and affect the geopolitic map of earth as we know it & all because the english/dutch were greedy lil shits" — Jun 09, 2025 10:15AM
"it’s insane to see the rippling effects of colonisation persist to this day and affect the geopolitic map of earth as we know it & all because the english/dutch were greedy lil shits" — Jun 09, 2025 10:15AM


“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984

“I didn’t know that money could make the cell doors swing open. I didn’t know that if a woman was drunk when the violence occurred, she wouldn’t be taken seriously. I didn’t know that if he was drunk when the violence occurred, people would offer him sympathy. I didn’t know that my loss of memory would become his opportunity. I didn’t know that being a victim was synonymous with not being believed.”
― Know My Name
― Know My Name

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