Laura

“A political system that won’t restrict firearms even after a shooter massacres classrooms full of children, a system that shrugs when a regime murders and dismembers a journalist because that regime controls an inordinate amount of oil, a system that won’t flinch at the images of starving babies when it has the power to save their lives—what manner of resistance can’t such a system learn to abide? What use is any of it, what use?”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“But as hard as it may have been, appeals to the American ideal that all people are created equal and have a right to participate in self-government ultimately won out, time after time.”
― Amy Coney Barrett, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution

“But the word “radicalize” feels wrong, seems to imply an element of extremism, as though rage at this kind of blatant hypocrisy is the abnormal thing, when what is plainly abnormal is to accept it.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“To be a girl is to go from being an observer to being observed.”
― Siobhan Gallagher, Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image