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Amanda

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Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

by Tricia Hersey

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The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People

by Rachel Wilkerson Miller

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"I am ...so confused as to who this book is for? The tone and the extremely basic level of content seems like it might be an introductory type text for teens....but then she talks about corporate retreats? Very superficial in some ways (she loves personality tests! 🙄) and the tone feels very much "trying hard to be cool" but so far the actual advice has been reasonable to interesting. Very all over the place." — Oct 13, 2023 09:54PM

Oct 13, 2023 09:54PM

Amanda’s Quotes

“What’s the problem with being “not racist”? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: “I am not a racist, but neither am I aggressively against racism.” But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “antiracist.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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“How do I fix it?” Zachary asks. “There is no fixing. There is only moving forward in the brokenness.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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“Life before law, people before policy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

tags: law, law-and-order, philosophy-of-law, police-reform, policy, policy-decisions, policymakers, political-science, public-service, social-development

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“Well-trained police following proper procedure are still going to be arresting people for mostly low-level offenses, and the burden will continue to fall primarily on communities of color because that is how the system is designed to operate—not because of the biases or misunderstandings of officers.”
― Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

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“Spiritual but not religious,” Zachary clarifies. He doesn’t say what he is thinking, which is that his church is held-breath story listening and late-night-concert ear-ringing rapture and perfect-boss fight-button pressing. That his religion is buried in the silence of freshly fallen snow, in a carefully crafted cocktail, in between the pages of a book somewhere after the beginning but before the ending. He”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

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