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“a system that never addresses the why behind a harm never actually contains the harm itself. Cages confine people, not the conditions that facilitated their harms or the mentalities that perpetuate violence.”
― We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
― We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
“Suppressing the knowledge produced by any oppressed group makes it easier for dominant groups to rule because the seeming absence of dissent suggests that subordinate groups willingly collaborate in their own victimization.”
― Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
― Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
“I could no longer participate in an exchange requiring acrobatics of self-denial.”
― Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
― Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
“Refusal: because we cannot collaborate with the prison-industrial complex, as “only evil will collaborate with evil” (June Jordan). Care: because “care is the antidote to violence” (Saidiya Hartman). Collectivity: because “everything worthwhile is done with others” (Moussa Kaba).”
― We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
― We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
“Oppression describes any unjust situation where, systematically and over a long period of time, one group denies another group access to the resources of society.”
― Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
― Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
A Novel Idea: a NYC Bookclub
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This is the goodreads' version of the already existing book club appropriately and wittingly named "A Novel Idea." The group is based in New York City ...more
Stephanie’s 2025 Year in Books
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