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Jenny is Currently Reading

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The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922

by Edmond Taylor

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— Jan 11, 2023 08:21PM

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Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

by Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 01, 2022 08:49PM

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The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

by Dolly Chugh (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 24, 2021 09:33AM

“That is not what “positive reappraisal” means; it’s not as simple as “look on the bright side” or “find the silver lining” or “enjoy the journey.” Nor is it about not feeling frustrated by the persistent gap between what is and what could or should be. Nor does it mean sticking your fingers in your ears and going, “La la la, nothing is wrong, everything is fine!”
― Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

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“Racial oppression should always be an emotional topic to discuss. It should always be anger-inducing. As long as racism exists to ruin the lives of countless people of color, it should be something that upsets us. But it upsets us because it exists, not because we talk about it.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

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“If you live in this system of white supremacy, you are either fighting the system of you are complicit. There is no neutrality to be had towards systems of injustice, it is not something you can just opt out of.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

tags: equality, fighting, injustice, pick-a-side, white-supremacy

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“Racism is any prejudice against someone because of their race when those views are reinforced by systems of power.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

tags: power, racism

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“The good news is that stress is not the problem. The problem is that the strategies that deal with stressors have almost no relationship to the strategies that deal with the physiological reactions our bodies have to those stressors. To be “well” is not to live in a state of perpetual safety and calm, but to move fluidly from a state of adversity, risk, adventure, or excitement, back to safety and calm, and out again. Stress is not bad for you; being stuck is bad for you.”
― Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

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