Dulcie

“There’s nothing empowering about the idea that the road to their sexual freedom is making a fetish costume out of a culture.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“You know who traditionally does poorly on standardized tests? Women and marginalized individuals. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy: groups that are constantly told by society that they’re less smart walk into a testing situation anxious as hell and end up underperforming. It’s called Stereotype Threat, and there’s tons of literature on that. Just like there’s tons of literature showing that the GRE does a terrible job at predicting who’ll finish grad school. But the heads of graduate admission all over the country don’t care and persist in using an instrument made to elevate rich white men.” She shakes out her hair. “Burn it down, I say.”
― Ali Hazelwood

“On average, American states spend $88,000 to incarcerate a young person, but allot an average of $10,000 to educate them.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“Ah, world, what lessons you prepare for us,
even in the leafless winter,
even in the ashy city.
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it

from “Starlings in Winter”
― Mary Oliver, Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays