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Puerto Rico: A National History

by Jorell Meléndez-Badillo

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A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides

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Bad Feminist: Essays

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“I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

tags: boys, discovery, feminism, gender-inequality, girls

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“Critiques of rape, pornography, and prostitution are “sex-negative” without qualification or examination, perhaps because so many men use these ignoble routes of access and domination to get laid, and without them the number of fucks would so significantly decrease that men might nearly be chaste.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse

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“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things

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“Women intend to save themselves when sacrificing some women, but only the freedom of all women protects any woman.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Right-Wing Women

tags: feminism, sexism, solidarity, women

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“Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice...

Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?”
― Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse

tags: choice, feminism, freedom, men, morality, objectification, oppression, patriarchy, women

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