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“I fear—how could I not?—that I will merely replace one error with another, that I will take avowal of desire in itself as an unalloyed, uncomplicated good in all places and in all situations, that no matter what I try to make of my life, I will never be free of that counterweight, whether I ever speak to another member of my family of origin again—always reacting, equally and oppositely, to someone else's commitments.”
― Daniel M. Lavery, Something That May Shock and Discredit You

“Climate collapse has been a racist issue for at least five hundred years. Colonialism made it so.”
― Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, The Nerves and Their Endings

“Ultimately, all executions are political. Their exercise is arbitrary, often capricious, and irrevocable.”
― Barry Jones, The Penalty is Death: state power, law, and justice

“I never know how to refer to previous incarnations of myself in a way that honestly acknowledges the present without sacrificing the past.”
― Daniel M. Lavery, Something That May Shock and Discredit You