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Her hair smelled nice. Must’ve used his shower without asking, like always. It was his shampoo, but on her he always thought it smelled sweeter.
“Leaving home but going back home: once you crossed the ocean you were always on the wrong side. That was the lot of the immigrant, belonging everywhere but nowhere. Displaced, and unplaced.”
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“But nothing inspired me more than the fights for equal rights at the center of our history. Each generation, it became clear, was defined by whether they expanded equality, welcoming and including people who had once been excluded or rejected.”
― Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
― Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
“The founders of America were more criminal than modern immigrants – you know why – because the founders of America didn’t only enter this land illegally, but after entering they drove the natives out of their own home, whereas all that the immigrants of today want is to have a better life for their family. Now tell me – who are the real criminals?”
― Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
― Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“I didn't know then that I hated school, only that school hated me, so much so that I bent my brown body into a bow to appease it. I broke out in hives, in teachers because I couldn't yet differentiate my love of learning from the hatred of a white supremacist educational system.”
― The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
― The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
“In the case of the United States, Black and Native lives are systematically choked by an enduring white supremacy that thrives on oppression and settler colonialism, and is backed by drones, the dispossession of territory and identity to millions, mass incarceration, the un-peopleing of people, and resource grabs that deny that indigenous lives matter and that our planet matters.”
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Vanisha’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Vanisha’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
601 books
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12 friends
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179 books
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546 books
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128 books
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