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shejuti is starting Are Prisons Obsolete?
“The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited.”
Mar 24, 2025 05:51PM Add a comment
Are Prisons Obsolete?

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shejuti is on page 70 of 531 of All the Light We Cannot See
“The war dropped its question mark”. WOW way to start a chapter— the writing in this book is too good.
Jan 15, 2025 11:00PM Add a comment
All the Light We Cannot See

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shejuti is starting When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
The Old Man’s Lazy and Rattle by Peter Blue Cloud are incredible… I don’t even know what to say
Jan 09, 2025 09:49PM Add a comment
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

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shejuti is starting Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States
“One can receive a stiff sentence for robbing a bank, but when a bank or insurance company systematically robs society as a whole, no one goes to jail. Class–determined disparities are built into the system of mass incarceration”. crazy relevant quote
Dec 29, 2024 11:34PM Add a comment
Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

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shejuti is on page 179 of 240 of We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
“Knowledge is built through struggle” -Angela Davis
Nov 23, 2024 09:38PM Add a comment
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

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shejuti is on page 147 of 240 of We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
A quote I keep flipping back to: “A system that never addresses the ‘why’ behind a harm never actually contains the harm itself. Cages confine people, not the conditions that facilitated their harms or the mentalities that perpetrate violence.”
Nov 21, 2024 06:45PM Add a comment
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

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shejuti is on page 64 of 258 of The Remains of the Day
“something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits; the simple kindness I had been thanked for, and the simple kindness I had been offered in return, caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days.”
Sep 01, 2024 10:23AM Add a comment
The Remains of the Day

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shejuti is 60% done with Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
this thesis is so interesting but why is the writing so repetitive and bland
Jul 30, 2024 10:31AM Add a comment
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

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shejuti is 75% done with To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS
“I cannot go home as who I am and that hurts me deeply.”
Jun 24, 2024 10:03AM Add a comment
To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS

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shejuti is 70% done with To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS
“We have been a part of every major activity and yet some of you dare not speak our names.”
Jun 24, 2024 09:27AM Add a comment
To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS

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