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Joanna Maciel

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“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: courage, empowering, fear, feminist, political, powerful, vision, women-strength

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“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: action, anger, black-feminism, feminism, guilt, oppression

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“Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: broken, incomplete, pieces, shattered, wholeness

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“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

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“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: change, civil-rights, discrimination, equality, fear, homophobia, political, prejudice, racism

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LITERARY HURRICANE — 287 members — last activity Jan 02, 2021 10:53AM
Bem-vindo ao LITERARY HURRICANE, um clube do livro brasileiro para pessoas de gostos variados e que gostam de sair de sua zona de conforto! Visite no ...more

FABClub (Female Authors Book Club) — 651 members — last activity May 16, 2025 05:56PM
We read books written by female authors and then we talk about them. All gender identities are welcome to become members of this group. All book selec ...more

Our Shared Shelf — 223217 members — last activity Jan 05, 2026 09:53AM
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge — 26836 members — last activity 1 hour, 21 min ago
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more

Reading Glasses - Fan Group — 3591 members — last activity Nov 29, 2025 01:20PM
A group for readers who listen to the 'Reading Glasses' podcast - our own little community!! ...more

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