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“As an enormously prolific writer whose work is still in print, Roosevelt is always close at hand… having labored mightily not only to understand himself but to convey this understanding to the world. Perhaps he was an original in the practice of narcissism in American politics. If there is anything you’d want to know, he conveniently directs your eye to a rich mythology” ohh yeah this my kinda book

read the top reviews and I take it back

hmmm reading as White Woman Discovers Structural Racism As An Adult and Wants Us To Learn From Her Discovery! lol…. giving it more time though hoping this becomes more about the author’s experiences in dcpl

CRAZY her Filipino friend said, ‘it’s not Asian Americans that hate themselves, it’s KOREANs. Filipinos?? Not so much’ …. I’d like to talk this person 😊

graduate school’s slow drip of racism worse than her classmate’s extremely appalling comment

Rereading (a/b) b/c I’ve been stuck on one of the quotes from this book since writing an interest statement for a job app & 3% in & lots already hitting as expected (stopped to right this as Park Hong defines “Racial self-hatred”)

What if you are missing so much of who you are because you are navigating life from a state of exhaustion?

“That sounded AWFUL to me. A school where you just learned laws? I couldn’t think of anything more boring”

LOVE the haunting and tormenting -- what i wanted from the ghost of the tiniest upward shove

ED while at Brown as means of control/belonging

Jacks pov — if anatomy of a fall was in the us & heavy on the racism

“White men love to use words that imply astonishment when a woman of color accomplishes anything they deem their terrain”

rereading & also listening to this this time
first read was during spring of my 1L year & now in my 3L fall, im feeling grateful, proud, and reflective

a highlight: law school is hard for high achievers for many reasons but one thing that is key to surviving it is transitioning from extrinsic motivation to intrinsic motivation — extrinsic success becomes merely an added bonus to living the life you want to live

TRIGGER WARNING: SA

“she felt though a sense of shame that paralyzed and terrified her. She could barely breathe from the space it occupied in her. She was scared not only by the scale of it, but by the revelation that this feeling did not start with the r*pe. It had been there long before. The r*pe had merely laid it bare, rendering her unable to mask it with a substitute emotion”

Um so the brother’s name is Pedro / Pietro NOT Julio I…..

Sept 2017
Julio on why he’s in the closet— his family never said anything bad about being gay but knew that it wasn’t normal & being shown that liking girls was good

Sept 2017
Olga/mateo got me mentally laying on my stomach smiling and kicking my feet up 🙈

Olga’s chapter, sept. 2017

“For the first time (certainly with Dick, possibly in recent memory), it occurred to her sex without disdain might be a good thing”

I laughed out loud

April25, 2002
On “women’s role in the world and the important enforcing hands of power in creating change”

Feeling #seen and resonating with Olga’s revolutionary mom (who was sent to an all-girls catholic school)

This ch: women conscious of space & time vs. men wasting (women’s) time. “Sometimes love looks like a savior” — women caring for men

She chose Liberation for herself & oppressed ppl

Match 1995 chapter — Olga’s mom talking about Olga going to an ivy school hitting REALLY. hard

Salinas shoutout! <3

House of Compassion also top story, but completely different style and vibes

“Listen, I respect the closet. For many of my friends, the closer was the only safe place they had.”

The Beard

“When people see that you’re busy, they respect you more.”

Afternoon Tea is my favorite story so far.

Style: short (6 pages!); great example of show not tell—dropped into and immediately immersed into the world; ends with reader wanting to know what comes next

Subjects: Sense of self, self-worth, racism, colorism, generational trauma, family, mentorship, woc experience, parables, reframing, pride, love

“… they get hurt so easily. Sometimes you just have to poke them for them to turn red as a tomato.”

Afternoon Tea

[granddaughter asks her grandmother why they’re brown]

“At the place where people are made they didn’t have enough paint to make us really dark. We were going to be black, but they ran out of paint in the color department. There are a lot of people like us in the world. We didn’t get so many coats. But they didn’t paint white people at all, or only gave them very thin coats, which is why…