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“She nursed the child because she was supposed to feel some deep electric connectedness to her and didn’t. So she gave her what she had — her body.”
― Red at the Bone
― Red at the Bone
“I wanted more, though — a hug, a kindness whispered into my ear. I wanted her to tell me I was beautiful… that she loved me… but instead, she got up.”
― Red at the Bone
― Red at the Bone
“Maybe all over the world there were daughters who knew their mothers as young girls and old women, inside and out, deep. I wasn’t one of them.”
― Red at the Bone
― Red at the Bone
“So willing — eager, almost — to shed our rich culture for the cheap thrill of being seen as American. Thinking that if one day they accumulated enough stuff, if they learned to act the right way, they could be seen as the same. And because of course, white America will never see them as equal, they die owning lots of things, but having lost themselves.”
― Olga Dies Dreaming
― Olga Dies Dreaming
“The thing about shame is that it eats at you until it fully consumes you. You no longer need people telling you to not dress like that; you already do it to yourself. You no longer need your family telling you to be quiet; you already do it to yourself. You edit yourself and at some point, it becomes so normal that you can’t even tell that you’re doing it.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
― Beyond the Gender Binary
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Jordan’s 2025 Year in Books
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