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Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History

by Asher Rose Fox (Goodreads Author)

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Sistah Vegan: Black Women Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society

by A. Breeze Harper

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Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit

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“There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.”
― bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism

tags: social-justice

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“Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.”
― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

tags: economics, economy, recession, social-justice, tax-cuts, taxation, taxes

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“To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

tags: love, romance

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“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.”
― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

tags: apocalypse, apocalyptic, brain, brains, craziness, crazy, creatures, happiness, happy, head, human, human-nature, humanity, humans, innocence, innocent, integrating, integration, kind, kindness, like, little-nibble, live, living, living-life, mean, mean-people, mental-health, mental-illness, nasty, nasty-people, nibble, nibbling, people, post-apocalyptic, reality, realization, realize, world, yourself, zombie, zombie-apocalypse, zombies, zompoc

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“To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.”
― Flora Jessop, Church of Lies

tags: abuse, abusers, innocent, inspirational, lies, perpetrators, poetry, survivors, victims

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