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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

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

“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

“The lipsticks that I own are steeped in sex and blood. In my collection, I have Lady Danger; Relentlessly Red; Good to Go. Cosmo tells me early on that the painted mouth is supposed to evoke the labia, voluptuous and slightly parted, and the names of my lipsticks bear this out: they are unequivocal. There are fast cars, dangers, and passion. There is fire, lust, anger poppies, roses, all of them packed into small, dark tubes.”
― Jessica Friedmann, Things That Helped: Essays