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Because I do not forget. Because I will never forget. Because we will never forget.
— Sep 07, 2024 07:56PM
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Because a sentence produces memories that will be inhabited forever by the name Liliana Rivera Garza, Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, July 16, 1990.
— Sep 07, 2024 07:55PM
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Because when faced with the question: It is worth it to get up early in the morning just to keep writing? Can writing, in fact, be something that acts against fear or terror? Since when has a page stopped a bullet?... Is there a protected zone, somehow invincible, around a written text? Is it possible, not to mention desirable, to grip or wield or raise a word? My answer continues to be yes.
— Sep 07, 2024 07:53PM
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Because in the rectangle of a page I am nourished and I dream and I plunge and I die. Because there, too, I am reborn. We are reborn.
— Sep 07, 2024 07:44PM
sofía
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Because using language, or letting yourself be used by it, is a daily political practice. Disrupting the limits of the intelligible or the real, writing’s very purpose,is to be political. Independent of the subject addressed or the anecdote told or the stylistic challenge proposed, the written text is a concrete exercise in politics. My hand, primarily the left though also the right, is purely political. That.
— Sep 07, 2024 07:42PM
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Because to confront is, above all, to confront death. To place yourself in pursuit of the unknown or the darkness...In that ethical & aesthetic attitude of the exposition that opens, & upon opening, damages; there, where the certainty urgently emerges that death, independent of its circumstances, is an act of violence; there, on the path, both the face & poetry walk alone. They are alone. Because of that, too.
— Sep 07, 2024 07:40PM
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Because perhaps the heart of writing consists in no more than showing your face and, if necessary, offering the other cheek.
— Sep 07, 2024 07:39PM
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Because imagination is another word for criticism and, this, the other word for subversion.
— Sep 07, 2024 07:34PM
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Because writing, by nature, invites us to consider the possibility that the world can, in fact, be different.
— Sep 07, 2024 07:31PM
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The macro measures—changes to public health on a state level—should not go against and, in fact, must complement smaller, quotidian community measures; and these together might be able to unlock the harmful alliance of state and corporation, and their intrusion on our health system.
— Sep 07, 2024 07:11PM
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In that sense, the fight for a public health system and the fight for migration reform are, in reality, the same fight; both are centered primarily on the fundamental assertion that we are bodies, and consequently, on the basic fact that so many bodies depend on each other in seriously altered ecological contexts.
— Sep 07, 2024 06:37PM
