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"Hmmmmmm….Sophie’s argument—that 2000s mainstream media co-opted feminist language in order to strip it of meaning and power—is sound, but she doesn’t always connect it back to what she is discussing. The first chapter is the strongest because it explains in detail how teen pop acts overtook the riot grrrls by appropriating their “Girl Power” slogan." — May 23, 2026 10:41PM
"Hmmmmmm….Sophie’s argument—that 2000s mainstream media co-opted feminist language in order to strip it of meaning and power—is sound, but she doesn’t always connect it back to what she is discussing. The first chapter is the strongest because it explains in detail how teen pop acts overtook the riot grrrls by appropriating their “Girl Power” slogan." — May 23, 2026 10:41PM
“conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right—the feeling of living in a world with Shadow Lands, the feeling that every human misery is someone else’s profit, the feeling of being exhausted by predation and extraction, the feeling that important truths are being hidden. The word for the system driving those feelings starts with c, but if no one ever taught you how capitalism works, and instead told you it was all about freedom and sunshine and Big Macs and playing by the rules to get the life you deserve, then it’s easy to see how you might confuse it with another c-word: conspiracy.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“And so the question remains: What aren’t we building when we are building our brands?”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.”
― Death Comes for the Archbishop
― Death Comes for the Archbishop
“Alexandra drew her shawl closer about her and stood leaning against the frame of the mill, looking at the stars which glittered so keenly through the frosty autumn air. She always loved to watch them, to think of their vastness and distance, and of their ordered march. It fortified her to reflect upon the great operations of nature, and when she thought of the law that lay behind them, she felt a sense of personal security. That night she had a new consciousness of the country, felt almost a new relation to it. Even her talk with the boys had not taken away the feeling that had overwhelmed her when she drove back to the Divide that afternoon. She had never known before how much the country meant to her. The chirping of the insects down in the long grass had been like the sweetest music. She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun. Under the long shaggy ridges, she felt the future stirring.”
― O Pioneers!
― O Pioneers!
“On the democratic socialist left, we favor social policies that are inclusive and caring—universal public health care, well-funded public schools, decarceration, and rights for migrants. But left movements often behave in ways that are neither inclusive nor caring. And in contrast to Bannon’s courting of disaffected Democrats, we also don’t put enough thought into how to build alliances with people who aren’t already in our movements. Sure, we pay lip service to reaching out, but in practice most of us (even many who claim to be staunchly anti-police) spend a lot of time policing our movements’ borders, turning on people who see themselves as on our side, making our ranks smaller, not larger.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
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