Olivia Thames

Olivia’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1162)
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read‎ (1154)
manga‎ (456)
childrens‎ (261)
graphic-novel‎ (257)
young-adult‎ (187)

fantasy‎ (146)
audiobook‎ (138)
horror-suspense-thriller‎ (106)
science-fiction‎ (93)
non-fiction‎ (80)
biography-memoir‎ (73)
historical-fiction‎ (70)

mystery‎ (69)
ddbhh‎ (54)
cinema‎ (49)
comic-books‎ (42)
disability-advocacy‎ (34)
poetry‎ (32)
self-help-and-spirituality‎ (32)

short-stories‎ (28)
fiction‎ (27)
novella‎ (23)
fairy-tale‎ (15)
banned-books‎ (6)
script‎ (4)

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Olivia’s Quotes

“We all have our own scars. Let them be a blessing and not a curse.”
― Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

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“As Ta-Nehisi Coates states, “But race is the child of racism, not the father.”6 He means that first we exploited people for their resources, not according to how they looked. Exploitation came first, and then the ideology of unequal races to justify this exploitation followed.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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“No woman has to be respectable to be valuable.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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“Change never happens at the pace we think it should. It happens over years of people joining together, strategizing, sharing, and pulling all the levers they possibly can. Gradually, excruciatingly slowly, things start to happen, and then suddenly, seemingly out of the blue, something will tip.”
― Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

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“Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

tags: feminism

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