Rachel Abrams

“Oh, the things we invent when we are scared
and want to be rescued.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Someone is digging your grave right now.”
― Richard Siken

“US history, as well as inherited Indigenous trauma, cannot be understood without dealing with the genocide that the United States committed against Indigenous peoples. From the colonial period through the founding of the United States and continuing in the twenty-first century, this has entailed torture, terror, sexual abuse, massacres, systematic military occupations, removals of Indigenous peoples from their ancestral territories, and removals of Indigenous children to military-like boarding schools. The absence of even the slightest note of regret or tragedy in the annual celebration of the US independence betrays a deep disconnect in the consciousness of US Americans.”
― Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States