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Cecilia Reads
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It was dangerous, deadly, they said, for any man to go there.
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
On the one hand, there stood slavery, a stern reality, glaring frightfully upon us,—its robes already crimsoned with the blood of millions, and even now feasting itself greedily upon our own flesh. On the other hand, away back in the dim distance, under the flickering light of the north star, behind some craggy hill or snow-covered mountain, stood
... See moreFrederick Douglass • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Original Classic Edition): An American Slave
Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. With the surgeries that Dr. Stevens described, Cora thought, the whites had begun stealing futures in earnest. Cut you open and rip them out, dripping. Because that’s what you do when you take away someone’s babies—steal their future. Torture
... See moreColson Whitehead • The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
the end, regardless of a Black woman’s marriage status or the specific circumstances surrounding her pregnancy, they were vulnerable to state-sanctioned violence at the hands of racist white doctors and complicit hospital workers who deemed impoverished Black women “unfit” for reproduction.
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Jeanetta Diggs
@jeanthoughts
Jedy Diane Caillio
@jedydiane
Abigail A Hutchinson
@theee.abinator
Edwidge Danticat story: “Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt.”