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"I just want to embody the boar on the cover, living my best stanky forest life." Aug 12, 2026 05:01PM

 
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Book cover for Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
the majority of the work to build the worlds we want happens outside of the structures that manufacture and preserve existing relations of power.
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It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Herman Melville
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale

Anne Lamott
“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”
Anne Lamott

Eusebius
“I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit: I was able to refute them for myself and loathe them even more.”
Eusebius, The Church History

Marilynne Robinson
“A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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