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“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― Babel
― Babel
“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Watership Down
― Watership Down
“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Crush
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”
― Crush
“What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
“After all, we do owe everything we are to others. This is simply true. The language we speak and even think in, our habits and opinions, the kind of food we like to eat, the knowledge that makes our lights switch on and toilets flush, even the style in which we carry out our gestures of defiance and rebellion against social conventions—all of this we learned from other people, most of them long dead.”
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
― Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The Lit Show
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The Lit Show is a podcast hosted by Rowan on JOY 94.9, Australia's only LGBTQ+ radio station where every week we take a genre and discuss it's relatio ...more
Who Watches the Watch: Discworld reread Group
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This is a discworld readthrough community, following the schedule of the discworld podcast Who Watches the Watch. The podcast available here (https:/ ...more
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