Carrie

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Carrie’s Bookshelves

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“I got a better question for you. Why are you so deeply invested in proving I'm scared? Does a Black person showing they're scared make you feel safer? I suggest you sit back and interrogate that.”
― Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

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“And I decided when you were born that I would hide my heart from you, because I worried I would love you into nervous oblivion.”
― Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie

tags: motherhood

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“As a Black queer person, I've died hundreds of times. Will likely die hundreds more times before my physical death. That is the lesson of death, through - from death comes rebirth. A rebirth in thinking, in processing, in living.”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

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“When other people see you as a third-class citizen, the first thing you need is a belief in yourself and the knowledge that you have rights. The next thing you need is a group of friends to fight back with.”
― Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

tags: activism, disability, disability-justice, social-justice

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“I was not a little mother or a hot mama. I was an eleven-year-old girl. Now, it seems to me a startlingly efficient way to age a child in a single word. Sometimes the word itself matters less than the authority with which it is spoken. It is the act of naming that claims you.”
― Melissa Febos, Girlhood

tags: girlhood, puberty, sexualization

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