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“I realize how much I have wanted this and not gotten it [good love], realize how much it is branded in my heart that, to be happy, alone, and childless is a fucking gift that most women get brainwashed into relinquishing.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home

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“It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

tags: disability-justice, sdqtbipoc

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“I find, that, in general, alliances based on friendship are the only things that last. Not alliances based on words and letters.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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“We're sistas. We treat each other like sistas. That's the blessin'. That's the problem. We come together cause we're both bein' fucked over by the same people. We get close. And then we fall in love with each other cause us third world diva gals are beautiful and blessed like none other.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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“Sometimes surviving abuse isn't terrible. Sometimes, when you leave your whole life behind, it feels blissfully free. Stepping away from everything you've known. The bliss of your very first door that shuts all the way. Wind between your legs. Stopping everything that happened for seven generations.

Free. Free. Free.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home

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