Stef Rozitis

“I understand what it is to have lives under your charge. To guide them while you can. To send them out into a hostile universe, alone… after knowing you can protect them no longer.
That is, I suspect, the best that any mother can do.”
― Ryan Cady, Alien: Black, White & Blood (2024) #1

“In turning away from each other, entities withdraw care for each other. Thus the earth is not dying. But the earth may be turning away from certain forms of existence. In this way of thinking the Desert is not that in which life does not exist, A Desert is where a series of entities have withdrawn care for the kinds of entities humans are and this has made humans into another form of existence: bone, mummy, ash, soil.”
― Elizabeth Povinelli

“We cannot rely on one occupation to free us from another, or one tyrant to free us from another. We fought with the British against the Ottomans, and they betrayed us and promised to give our land to the Jews. Haven’t we learned our lesson? Freedom will not come to us through an external power. We have to earn it ourselves.”
― Samah Sabawi, Cactus Pear For My Beloved: A Family Story from Gaza

“A dark bewitched commitment to the lure of Progress (and its polar opposite) lashes us to endless infernal alternatives as if we had no other ways to reworld, reimagine, relive, and reconnect with each other in multispecies wellbeing”
― Donna Haraway, "Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene"