Lauren Durham

“but the more people like Wolf and Bannon focus on very real fears of Big Tech—its power to unilaterally remove speech, to abscond with our data, to make digital doubles of us—the more liberals seem to shrug and sneer and treat the whole package of worries like crazy-people stuff. Once an issue is touched by “them,” it seems to become oddly untouchable by almost everyone else.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World

“Know the ways of the ones who take care of you”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

“Women’s bodies have near-perfect knowledge of childbirth; it’s when their brains get involved that things can go wrong. When we force external rules on laboring women’s behavior, their births may veer off track. The intrinsic intelligence of women’s bodies can be sabotaged when they’re put into clinical settings, surrounded by strangers, and attached to machines that limit their freedom to move.”
― Peggy Vincent, Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife