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Is Everyone Really Equal? by Özlem Sensoy

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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

by bell hooks

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Making Comics (Lynda Barry's Creativity Series)

by Lynda Barry

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When Witches Can't Cast

by Matilda Lockwood (Goodreads Author)

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Dana’s Quotes

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
― James Baldwin

tags: dissent, patriotism, protest

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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: fear, hate, pain

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
― James Baldwin

tags: art, expression, james-baldwin, nausea, survival, vomit

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“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

tags: observational

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Mormon Women for Ethical Government — 125 members — last activity Jun 13, 2026 08:55AM
Welcome to our bookshelf! Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) inspires women of faith to be ambassadors of peace who transcend partisanship a ...more

Social Change & Activism — 1680 members — last activity Jul 15, 2026 11:17AM
People interested in progressive social change for advancing social justice and the environment. Exploring issues, ideas, solutions, organizing, metho ...more

The Pedantic Zebra Book Club — 54 members — last activity Jun 11, 2026 12:54PM
Hi and welcome to The Pedantic Zebra. The quarterly book club (audio or text) where we learn alongside each other about illness, disability, systemic ...more

Diversity in All Forms! — 1972 members — last activity Feb 12, 2026 07:43PM
This book club will engage participants on a variety of culturally relevant topics that have included (but are not limited to): ethnicity/race, countr ...more

Sisters that Sweat — 23 members — last activity Jun 27, 2025 05:30PM
This group is full of girls who want to make a difference change the world and empower one another because Well-behaved women seldom make history ---- ...more

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