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In short, if you are doing something that is not illegal (photography, dancing, playing the flute), while doing something that is not criminal (trespassing) you can be automatically arrested, and liable to six months in prison and a
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“There are boundaries in nature. There are rivers, forests, escarpments, ravines and mountain ranges; there are cellulose walls. But these boundaries are in fact areas of transaction, semi-permeable membranes. The notion that a perimeter should be impenetrable is a human contrivance alone.”
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
“She asked why it happens? Keeps happening? What exact regime teaches males to take what isn’t given? What riles them?”
― The Half-God of Rainfall: A Powerful Epic Poem of Yoruba Deities and Greek Mythology Across the Ages
― The Half-God of Rainfall: A Powerful Epic Poem of Yoruba Deities and Greek Mythology Across the Ages
“Central to paternalism is the notion of the status quo: that its form of government is the only viable option. Through history, the concept of the feminine has been linked by the patriarchy to sedition, protest, any form of questioning this status quo.”
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
“Walls look like order; but more often than not a wall stands at the precise fulcrum of an imbalance in society. Most walls are only necessary as a means of defending the resources of those that have them from those that lack them. In this way, though they present themselves as mechanisms of security, they are in fact tools of oppression.”
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
― The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
“So if this is you, too; if somewhere along the way you lost the part of yourself that felt you could do anything, be anything; if there is a part of you that doesn’t feel strong or doesn’t know how to begin, that doesn’t feel you look the way you ‘should’ or feels ashamed in your own body, I am here to tell you whatever you have believed in the past does not have to determine your story.”
― Stronger: Changing Everything I Knew About Women’s Strength
― Stronger: Changing Everything I Knew About Women’s Strength
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