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Best pieces in the book thus far:
~ Men’s Sexual Rights versus Women’s Sex-Based Rights
~ Queer Politics

both by Sheila Jeffreys

Found this on the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist. So far I’m digging it

”Yes, there is grief. Grief that inundates you and penetrates your bones, that threatens to paralyze like a nerve agent. We mustn’t let it paralyze. We must spin it and weave it into a weapon. Into rage at the nihilism & cruelty that brought us here. Nothing about this was inevitable.”

Low-key boring. As soon as I hear enough about an object that I'm fully interested, the author moves on to the next object and I'm just like ??? ok???

I don't feel like I'm learning much, just being kinda halfway entertained

Should I even finish it? I'm tornnn

THIS IS WONDERFUL FIVE STARS CHEFSKISS MWAH

The game of good politics makes it much more difficult to be humble, responsive, and creative. No one can HAVE [good politics]. Joyful common notions can never be possessed, they can only be developed and sustained collectively. They are shared powers that grow through relationships and struggles. When held up as a badge of honor or gripped as an identity, they die, detached from what animates them.

Rereading cus it’s important

Unitarian Universalism is faith in people, hope for tomorrow’s child. It looks not to a perfect heaven, but toward a good earth. It is spiritual responsibility for a moral tomorrow.