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Maya is Currently Reading

Maya is currently reading

Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis

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Aug 09, 2026 10:45AM

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We Love You, Bunny (Bunny, #2)

by Mona Awad (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 09, 2026 07:07AM

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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

by Howard Zinn

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Jul 10, 2025 06:05PM

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Maya’s Quotes

“She could think of nothing more horrifying than not being able to hide what she wanted.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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“Lightness, like anything inherited at great cost, was a lonely gift.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

tags: light, race

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“You could never quite get used to loneliness; every time she thought she had, she sank further into it.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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“Being mad at my own body for something it has no control over only succeeded in making everything hurt even more.”
― Lara Parker, Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics

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“Most of what I was taught about sex was bullshit. Most of what the majority of us are taught about sex is bullshit, for that matter, but it’s extra bullshit for women.”
― Lara Parker, Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics

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