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I don’t think I’ve ever read a story where romantic love isn’t a part of the plot, even if it’s a measly side plot. The fact that Kaikeyi’s life’s focus is on herself, her purpose, and what brings her fulfilment is so refreshing, and so needed. She doesn’t feel that’s she’s unfulfilled or unhappy in life without the deep, passionate often lust-based love media sells us.

“In helping one woman, I had in fact helped myself.”

“…but I am going to conclude by saying that the greatest challenge facing us as we attempt to forge international solidarities and connections across national borders is an understanding of what feminists often call “intersectionality”. Not so much intersectionality of identities, but intersectionality of struggles.

“It’s interesting that in this era of global capitalism the corporations have learned how to do that: the corporations have element how to access aspects of our lives that cause us to often express our innermost dreams in terms of capitalist commodities. So we have internalized exchange value in ways that would have been entirely unimaginable…”

“The personal is political - not only that what we experience on a personal level has profound political implications, but that our interior lives, our emotional lives are very much informed by ideology. We ourselves often do the work of the state in and through our interior lives. What we often assume belongs intimately to ourselves and to our emotional life has been produced elsewhere and has been recruited…”

“Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And often we discover that those other stories are actually our own stories.”

“Racial segregation was instituted in the aftermath of slavery, in the aftermath of the black radical reconstruction, in an attempt to manage free black people.”