Jess May
@nothingmorepunk
Jess May
every day you spend completely absorbed in the fantasy games, is another day you could have used in learning how to ride the real rollercoaster better.
Scott Stevenson • How to Finally Make Something
“Why do 99% of people struggle to get past the first mile in their creative projects? How could I join the 1% that actually make things?”
After a decade of introspection, creative attempts and reading, I found an answer that worked for me. Overcoming the barrier to freeform creation has felt like one of the best things that’s happened in my life.
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After a decade of introspection, creative attempts and reading, I found an answer that worked for me. Overcoming the barrier to freeform creation has felt like one of the best things that’s happened in my life.
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Scott Stevenson • How to Finally Make Something
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Reni Eddo-Lodge • 8 highlights
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“The ultimate logic of racism is genocide,”
Taylor Branch • At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
To be an antiracist is a radical choice in the face of this history, requiring a radical reorientation of our consciousness.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
I was a dupe, a chump who saw the ongoing struggles of Black people on MLK Day 2000 and decided that Black people themselves were the problem. This is the consistent function of racist ideas—and of any kind of bigotry more broadly: to manipulate us into seeing people as the problem, instead of the policies that ensnare them.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
What’s the problem with being “not racist”? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: “I am not a racist, but neither am I aggressively against racism.” But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “antiracist.” What’s the difference? One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a rac
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