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On militarized policing, and how the overemphasis of horror stories creates a normalization of ordinary injustices:
"we must accept that the ordinary is fair for the extreme to be a problem"

"What will we say when people who are already hostile to transformative justice aggressively demand a solution for addressing...abhorrent, violent actions? 'What's your alternative to a death sentence...' some will spit out derisively, as if the onus to create a safer society falls on the shoulders of single individuals rather than being a collective project decided together in community."

So powerful.

Wow. Wow wow wow.

"This is the thing: If you have the option to not think about or even consider history, whether you learned it right or not, or whether it even deserves consideration, that's how you know you're on board the ship that serves hors d'oeuvres and fluffs your pillows, while others are out at sea, swimming or drowning, or clinging to little inflatable rafts that they have to take turns keeping inflated..."

Oh my gracious. This is delightful.

"How many generations of women had delayed their greatness only to have time extinguish it completely? How many women had run out of time while the men didn't know what to do with theirs? And what a mean trick to call such things holy or selfless. How evil to praise women for giving up each and every dream."

Breathless.

HER MOTHER'S STORY. In my bones.

"Was that mom happy? Was she fulfilled from downing handfuls of unidentified herbs with her Venti coffee while incessantly texting other mommies similarity stoned on herbs and frantically pushing toddlers on kiddie swings? Maybe she didn't need to be fulfilled in the way Nightbitch herself needed it? Maybe her kids were enough?"

Dang.
The millennial remake of 1950s moms living on Valium and crushed dreams.

"...the whole fucking thing was a sham, the working and pumping and hurrying and not holding her baby. She inflated with mother-rage and composed elaborate, emotional arguments against the system and capitalism and the patriarchy and then religion and gender roles and biology."

Unbelievably good. Oh my stars. I want to read it unceasingly, forever, and I want to stop after every paragraph to tell everyone in the world about it. Look! Read! Know! Oh!

Unbelievably excited for this.

"We can hardly move in the direction of justice and equality in the twenty-first century if we are unwilling to recognize the enormous role played by [the prison industrial complex] system in extending the power of racism and xenophobia."