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A twist in chapter 2? I'm hooked.

"Nanette is basically 'Eat, Pray, Love' for autistic queer folk."

"If anxiety in a child is left untreated, or worse, unacknowledged, anxiety will not only be magnified, it will inevitably compound into trauma."

"I want the world to stop demanding gratuitous details in exchange for empathy. Entertainment in exchange for understanding. But I am not in charge of the world. I am not in charge of my own story, because, as I am so fond of saying, there is no such thing as a straight line through trauma." (pg. 191)

Every book before this had four POVs but here we're up to 12?! What is happening

"Radical self-love is not an impossibility. It is not even a destination. It is your inherent sense of self."

"Living in a society structured to profit from our self-hate creates a dynamic in which we are so terrified of being ourselves that we adopt terror-based ways of being in our bodies."

"You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same."

I'm just going to say, I've never had this many feelings about Beowulf before.

"Your heart is a party for five thousand nails." God I love this book.

"The fundamental problem with white feminism has always been that it refuses to admit that the primary goal is shifting power to white women, and no one else."

"Anger doesn't have to be erudite to be valid. It doesn't have to be nice or calm to be heard. ... No one has ever freed themselves from oppression by asking nicely."

Gotta remind myself of all the gory details before starting (finally) on Harrow.

"Although gender isn't binary, there is a financial penalty for presenting as feminine, because misogyny is a hell of a drug."

"Every philanthropist, if she is paying attention, eventually becomes an activist. If we do not, we risk becoming codependent with power."

"When some victims are seen as disposable, then eventually all victims are disposable, regardless of white supremacist patriarchal claims to be invested in the protection of white womanhood."

HERE WE GO

When we're on page 3 and already throwing gender constructs out the window, I'm in.

Holy cow. "The Screwfly Solution" just tore me to shreds on my lunch break.

IN CASE ANYONE WAS WONDERING:

"Malcom [X] was considered to be a 'racist in reverse.' This formulation, in terms of power--and power is the arena in which racism is acted out--means absolutely nothing . . . The powerless, by definition, can never be 'racists,' for they can never make the world pay for what they feel or fear."

It's incredible to me that my imagination of the Murrys' house is exactly the same as when I started this series at 7 years old.