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But straight-size people’s tasks will be threefold: not to buckle under the weight of their own discomfort, to stay in the conversation long enough to learn, and to take proactive action to counter anti-fat bias and help defend fat people.
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“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Life does often get in the way of one's reading.”
― Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
― Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
“It's hard to be sad when you're being useful.”
― Before the Fall
― Before the Fall
“But if, sometimes, an unspeakable horror arises from the smallest error, I choose to believe that it’s possible for an equally unimaginable grandeur to grow from the tiniest gesture of love. I choose to believe that it works both ways. That great terror is the result of a thousand small but evil choices, and great good is the outcome of another thousand tiny acts of care.”
― We Are Called to Rise
― We Are Called to Rise
“Reckless white boys became politicians and bankers, reckless black boys became dead.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
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Carissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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