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The Future is Fem...
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As I Was Saying
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"I finished part 1 which introduces Gertrude Stein and publication history/early critical reception of The Making of Americans. Part 2 is more essays. I will read part 3 alongside TMOA, as it is a “chapter” by “chapter guide (there are no actual chapters, chapters seem to be supplied by critics)." May 16, 2026 04:48PM

 
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Book cover for Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
Show me an activist who is so overwhelmed by darkness that they can’t feel joy, and I’ll show you a useless activist. Grief and anger are powerful motivators. In our case, they sparked a movement and helped it grow. But it was sustained by ...more
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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
Rumi

James Baldwin
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
James Baldwin

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”
Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

“The music was more than music- at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous. Those powerful moments of true knowledge that we have to paper over with daily life. The music tapped the back of our terrors, too. Things we'd lived through and didn't want to ever repeat. Shredded imaginings, unadmitted longings, fear and also surprisingly pleasures. No, we can't live at that pitch. But every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware. And this realization was in the music, somehow, or in the way Shamengwa played it.”
Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

Winston S. Churchill
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
Winston Churchill

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