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A Mouthful of Dust (The Singing Hills Cycle, #6)

by Nghi Vo (Goodreads Author)

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The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie

by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

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Avatar depression is a real condition. It arose from James Cameron’s 2009 movie about blue alien indigenes being invaded by a mining company, and psychiatrists have been struggling to treat it ever since. Apparently, the vision of ...more

Lindsey’s Quotes

“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

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“He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.”
― Daniel Clowes, Ghost World

tags: boy, cool, girl, successful, try

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“Linguists traditionally observe that esteemed writers have been using they as a gender-neutral pronoun for almost a thousand years. As far back as the 1400s, in the Sir Amadace story, one finds the likes of Iche mon in thayre degree (“Each man in their degree”).”
― John H. McWhorter, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

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“(I must note that the copy editor for this book, upon reading this section, actually allowed me to use singular they throughout the book. Here’s to them in awed gratitude!)”
― John H. McWhorter, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

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“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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