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Vanessa Obi
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As a callow eighteen-year-old leaving for college, I’d seen my hometown as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be. But years and miles away from home could never attenuate the
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“change was viewed everywhere as being unethical and ruinous”
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“The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.”
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is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.”
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“i found god in myself
& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely”
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& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely”
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“I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess”
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“Rape was and is a cultural and political act: it attempts to remove a person with agency, autonomy, and belonging from their community, to secrete them and separate them, to depoliticize their body by rendering it detachable, violable, nothing.”
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
― Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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