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Cole Haddon • Charlie Kaufman Reminds Screenwriters Who They Really Work For
The philosopher Alphonso Lingus says, “We really have to free the notion of liberation and revolution from the idea of permanently setting up some other kind of society.”
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
The underlying, unarticulated assumption of this political talk was that victims and criminals were two distinct categories of people with diametrically opposed interests.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
If You’re Not at the Table, You’re on the Menu
Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
Activism requires a kind of willed hopefulness, a readiness to bash your head against a wall so that it may crumble or crack, even if you know all the arguments about why what you’re doing is probably doomed and all the reasons the wall is unlikely to budge.
Astra Taylor • Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions
Naming who has access and who doesn’t guides our efforts in challenging injustice.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Sophie Lewis • TERF Island - Lux Magazine
many of us accept the violence, limitations, and boundaries imposed by the system as though they are natural laws—inalterable, inevitable, and final—and view everyday people as an existential threat to control, contain, and manage.