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shawnee is on page 267 of 384

“Giving out water was one thing; doing so with rifles was another. Liberating prisons—juvenile or otherwise—landed yet somewhere else on the spectrum.”

is gonzalez trying to condemn the actions of revolutionaries? trying to condemn violence in the name of liberation? what a confusing author

— Jan 12, 2026 02:45PM

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shawnee is on page 273 of 384

“…Olga began to notice that her clients were growing steadily richer while the people doing the work were getting compensated in exactly the same way.”

okay intro to sociology

also hasn’t olga been characterized as this smart, ivy-league-educated woman? and yet she’s having realizations that other BIPOC figure out during their frosh yr or before (just without the language to describe it)…i’m upset

— 23 hours, 38 min ago

shawnee is on page 268 of 384

“He understood that on the island, that ravaged strip of land, was the map back to the person he had lost sight of.”

…like I see what Gonzalez was trying to go for, but of context, this is giving the white saviorism she is trying to denounce.

— Jan 13, 2026 01:01PM

shawnee is on page 212 of 384

— Jan 08, 2026 04:30AM

shawnee is on page 184 of 384

— Jan 07, 2026 08:11AM

shawnee is on page 110 of 384

i wish i wish with all my heart that i can DNF this book, but i actually can’t because it’s part of the curriculum :/

— Dec 15, 2025 01:32PM

shawnee is on page 58 of 384

— Dec 11, 2025 08:59AM