Gabriel Avocado

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Gabriel’s Bookshelves

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ethnicity-race-racism‎ (620)
lgbt-gender‎ (559)
memoirs-biographies‎ (434)
feminism-women-misogyny‎ (415)
cant-find‎ (334)
imperialism‎ (295)
marxist-history‎ (271)
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peronal-favorites‎ (100)
fascism‎ (93)
genocide-slavery‎ (87)
sex-sexwork‎ (87)

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“The Malleus Maleficarum, the definitive guide for witch hunters published in 1486, wrote of a woman who stole dozens of penises, then hid them in a tree where they lived like birds in a nest.”
― David M. Friedman, A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis

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“A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.

A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.

A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.”
― Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

tags: civilization, colonialism, society

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“Behold the portrait of our mortality”
― Hélène Cixous, Stigmata: Escaping Texts

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“I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more than just the people trying to destroy us.”
― B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

tags: abuse, queer, self-destruction, suicide, survival

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“racial melancholia” to refer to histories of racial loss that are condensed into a forfeited object whose significance must be deciphered and unraveled for its social meanings.”
― David L. Eng, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

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