Laura

“Some thoughts burrow into your mind as thoroughly as a wasp larva burrows into an unsuspecting caterpillar. The trick, which I am still learning, is how to live without being devoured by them.”
― T. Kingfisher, Wolf Worm

“My pants got charged with arson. (119)”
― Ramona Bennett Bill, Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe: A Memoir

“At some point, future history books will tell stories about what is happening now. Maybe, they will tell the story of how money, new technologies, and old entitlements held us back long enough to forget the spirit of freedom that inspired ordinary people to fight against the odds. Maybe that story will reflect intersectional failures that undermined our ability to see the fight for democracy and the fight for racial justice are inseparable, the mirror images of the succubus twins that Morrison* invoked. My hope, though, is that the future will look back to tell a different story, one about how the spirit of freedom was nurtured by talking back against agendas that turned on ignorance and forced compliance. I hope ours will be a legacy that lives on through efforts to nurture, sustain, and grow a democracy that is shaped not from top down by race, gender, power, and privilege, but instead by the victories of those who rose up to create new possibilities for everyone.”
― Kimberlé Crenshaw, Backtalker: An American Memoir

“demands for political freedom and self-government. The Arab hatred of the Jewish population is a direct result of Zionist politics. Zionism has poisoned the atmosphere and put the Jewish population of Palestine in danger…. The nationalist demonstrations that Zionists have organized exploit the victims of these tragic events and the understandable upset of the Jewish community…. This meeting calls on Jewish workers to fight the storm of nationalism and chauvinism that Zionists are unleashing on the Jewish Street. The answer to tragically but pointlessly spilled blood cannot lie in more national hatred, which will inevitably lead to more communal clashes, but in international solidarity and the growth of the socialist movement.”
― Molly Crabapple, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund