Victoria

“Being radical is a choice, and it takes work. A person with a marginalized identity can engage in conservative, oppressive political work, and activists, organizers, and intellectuals living under capitalism, colonialism, anti-Black racism, and patriarchy require years of unlearning or decolonization.”
― Charlene Carruthers, Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

“If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.”
― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“Does your doctor get money from Big Pharma? You can look them up on Dollars for Docs, a service from ProPublica”
― Jennifer Gunter, The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine

“In yet another commercial, Oprah somberly says, “Inside every overweight woman is a woman she knows she can be.” This is a popular notion, the idea that the fat among us are carrying a thin woman inside. Each time I see this particular commercial, I think, I ate that thin woman and she was delicious but unsatisfying. And then I think about how fucked up it is to promote this idea that our truest selves are thin women hiding in our fat bodies like imposters, usurpers, illegitimates.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body