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Mrs. Pasternack said something else that year that I never forgot. She said, “The truth is we don’t know what we don’t know. We don’t even know the questions we need to ask in order to find out, but when we learn one tiny little thing, a
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“Momma reaches her fork onto my plate and breaks off a piece of pancake. “What is Tumblr anyway? Is it like Facebook?” “No, and you’re forbidden to get one. No parents allowed. You guys already took over Facebook.” “You haven’t responded to my friend request yet.” “I know.” “I need Candy Crush lives.” “That’s why I’ll never respond.”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“Rest is not a luxury, a privilege, or a bonus we must wait for once we are burned out. I hear so many repeat the myth of rest being a privilege and I understand this concept and still deeply disagree with it. Rest is not a privilege because our bodies are still our own, no matter what the current systems teach us. The more we think of rest as a luxury, the more we buy into the systematic lies of grind culture. Our bodies and Spirits do not belong to capitalism, no matter how it is theorized and presented.”
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
“The crimes men commit against women aren’t done to women as random individuals; they’re done because women belong to a subordinate class and they’re done to keep women a subordinate class. The”
― Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
― Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics War On Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
“The idea of justice being unrealistic is deeply embedded in our psyche. We’ve been socialized from birth to ignore our deepest imaginings, to rush and to believe that our entire lives are built upon what we do for capitalism. It is a relentless attack happening daily and hourly. Rest exists to repair this trauma, fear, and misinformation.”
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
“What we have internalized as productivity has been informed by a capitalist, ableist, patriarchal system. Our drive and obsession to always be in a state of “productivity” leads us to the path of exhaustion, guilt, and shame. We falsely believe we are not doing enough and that we must always be guiding our lives toward more labor. The distinction that must be repeated as many times as necessary is this: We are not resting to be productive. We are resting simply because it is our divine right to do so. That is it! Rest in this proclamation for a moment.”
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
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