Jazmine
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Jazmine
Happy Birthday Sylvia Plath! 〰️ The fig tree metaphor is our Roman Empire.
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Optionality and stewardship
“multiple oppressions reinforce each other to create new categories of suffering.”
Bettina L. Love • We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Anti-intersectionality is the is this theory of this going the other way: multiple systems of privilege, create new categories, or reinforce categories of privilege, which intern reinforce oppression, and create new categories of suffering.
Our systems, institutions, leaders and narratives about who and what we are — our lack of compassion and limited definitions of what a valued member of society is — are failing us. They have been failing us for quite some time
Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism
It can be seen how these various impulses must war against one another, and how they must fluctuate from person to person and from time to time. By nature — taking your ‘nature’ to be the state you have attained when you are first adult — I am a person in whom the first three motives would outweigh the fourth. In a peaceful age I might have written... See more
George Orwell: Why I Write
various sections of the liberal bourgeoisie–the very people who are the supporters of Fascism when it appears in a more modern form.
George Orwell • Homage To Catalonia
What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, “I am going to produce a work of art.” I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to... See more
Why I Write
George Orwell (from “Politics and the English Language”):
“Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
