Daniel

“When he was with a client, he had to be careful not to use any of the forbidden words. Struggle, resist, rebel, queer—and a host of others—were considered too radical by the State and had been banned decades ago, replaced with more innocuous words such as 'to make effort ', 'to dispute' and 'to betray'. Queer, having passed through 'LGBTQIA+' at the turn of the century and 'Sexual and gender divergents' to decades later, now had no permissible equivalent that wasn't a slur. As the linguists working in the State knew very well, without a vocabulary to express it, there could be no concept. By banning the very idea of queerness, they hoped that the people themselves would also disappear.”
― Otter Lieffe, Margins and Murmurations

“What is awful is at once appealing and repulsive, it fascinates and generates disgust, and those who succumb to the awful can only escape it at the price of ennui, of boredom.”
― Hubertus Kohle, Dark Romanticism: From Goya to Max Ernst

“We need to have a clear sense of what is dying, what is growing, and what has yet to be born in this phase of transition. We must move toward the future lacking a clear-cut blueprint of what is to be done and shedding a dogmatic sense of the eternal truth but carrying with us a shared sense of the awareness, values, methods and relationships necessary to navigate these uncharted waters.”
― Scott Kurashige, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

“The term white "supremacy" creeps around, infecting and affecting everything around us, yet so few would even admit to agreeing with it. I replace the word supremacy with hegemony because white hegemony is a more accurate expression of the act and process of european-enforced global systematic colonialism. white hegemony is the actual process of systematized white domination, which is continually enacted upon the world and maintained daily.”
― Nicole Mitchell Gantt, The Mandorla Letters: for the hopeful