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“Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.”
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“Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see the same impulse in my students-the dark, the queer, the mixed-blood, the violated-turning to the written page with a relentless passion, a drive to avenge their own silence, invisibility, and erasure as living, innately expressive human beings.”
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“Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm. ”
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Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm. ”
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“I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to come up with new names for ourselves, and that the names we give ourselves must no longer reflect a fear of being labeled outsiders, must no longer bind us to a system that would rather see us dead.”
― Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws
― Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws
“Taking an abolitionist stance does not mean refusing to engage in incremental change, nor does it mean abandoning efforts to improve conditions inside prisons. Rather, abolitionists engage in 'abolitionist reforms' or 'non-reformist reforms.' These are reforms that either directly undermine the prison industrial complex or provide support to prisoners through strategies that weaken, rather than strengthen, the prison system itself. For example, rather than lobbying for bigger prison health budgets to care for elderly prisoners, an abolitionist reform strategy would aim to get elderly prisoners out on compassionate release to obtain healthcare in the community. --S. Lamble”
― Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
― Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
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This group is dedicated to our Dual idenitities as Black and Queer in the United States and elsewhere in the world and how our stories are relayed to ...more
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— last activity Sep 16, 2020 01:40AM
For discussion of books about transgendered people or topics, or of interest to transgendered populations, including SOFFAs.
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Lesbian and Queer Women's Books
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— last activity Aug 18, 2016 08:03PM
Tired of reading only romances and mysteries? We concentrate on literary lesbian fiction. This group meets monthly in or near Corvallis, Oregon. To j ...more
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— last activity Nov 13, 2012 03:33PM
A group for members and supporters of the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
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