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woke up and decided i want to read about this silly slimy creature

IM SO KILIGGGGG

insert audio: the p^rn on your fucking computer made my jaw drop

But only a mother can walk/with the weight/of a second beating heart

When they ask you/where you're from/tell them your name/was fleshed from the toothless mouth/of a war-woman

rereading

“Jammed between my own bags, stooped over, I sobbed.”

“I remembered that I had never had a proper cry over my grandmother's death. I had a feeling that I wasn't crying over any one sad thing, but rather for many.”

part 1. in my effort to forget about the breakup rumors

unang libro na nakapagpabungisngis sa akin ngayong buwan :)

"most women, especially privileged white women, ceased even to consider revolutionary feminist visions, once they began to gain economic power within the existing social structure."

having this dark, inexplicable urge to smash billy's head with a guitar and strangle him with the string.
camila is so much better than me

billy and daisy, daisy and billy. i completely agree when another character, i think it was eddie, described the scenario as tiring; keeping a grown ass man "sober" and the manic pixie girl "level"

..or maybe i'm just having a bad day. maybe

"While the convict lease system was legally abolished, its structures of exploitation have reemerged in the patterns of privatization, and, more generally, in the wide-ranging corporatization of punishment that has produced a prison industrial complex"

WORD.

in what she calls "prison industrial complex", davis argues that corporations that are constantly in search of cheap labor have their claws on the "punishment industry"; and mass imprisonment generates "profits".

why is there no great outcry?
1. because we are designed to think that a civilized life without prison is impossible and absurd.
2. our idea of prison comes from our exposure to media

"are we willing to relegate ever larger numbers of people from racially oppressed communities to an isolated existence marked by authoritarian regimes, violence, disease, and technologies of seclusion that produce severe mental instability?"

interesting.

it is the author's hope to encourage people to question their assumptions about prison.