Dilla's Annotation

where I collect annotations from the books I read.

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Martin Luther King wasn't alone in creating the civil rights movement. He also needed Malcolm X, who used other means--violent means--to help fighting the same battle and to achieve the same end. When do you stop trying to resolve things peacefully and use force instead? What makes a person cross that line?

Mona Hajjar Halaby - In My Mother's Footsteps

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Palestine, my Palestine, you look so different at night. No more checkpoints and barbed wire scarring your landscape, no more turrets popping out from the earth like metallic mushrooms, no more snaking Wall, insidiously butchering and dividing your belly. How nice to live in the dark without setting eyes on ugly the scars Israel has inflicted on you, not to have to subjugate ourselves again and over again to occupiers on our land.

Mona Hajjar Halaby - In My Mother's Footsteps

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Pengakuan mereka tentang pentingnya reproduksi dan kerja rumah tangga perempuan untuk akumulasi kapital menyebabkan pemikiran ulang kategori Marx serta pemahaman baru tentang sejarah awal dan dasar-dasar perkembangan kapitalis dan perjuangan kelas. Dimulai pada awal 1970-an, sebuah teori feminis terbentuk yang meradikasilisasi pergeseran teoretis yang telah dirintis oleh kritik "Dunia Ketiga" terhadap Marx; yang menegaskan bahwa kapitalisme tidak selalu dapat diidentifikasikan dengan pekerjaan kontrak yang diupah, dengan alasan bahwa pada dasarnya, kapitalisme adalah kerja yang tidak bebas; serta mengungkapkan hubungan sebab-akibat antara devaluasi pekerjaan reproduktif dan devaluasi posisi sosial perempuan.

Silvia Federici - Revolusi di Titik Nol (Revolution at Point Zero)

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Nawal El Saadawi menekankan perlunya perempuan menemukan identitas mereka sendiri--tidak hanya terpisah dari laki-laki, tetapi juga menantang pandangan negatif tentang budaya dan masyarakat mereka yang merupakan warisan kolonialisme dan imperialisme. "Sekarang, di Barat, segala sesuatu yang berhubungan dengan masyarakat Muslim adalah negatif. Namun, ada hal-hal positif. Karena alasan tersebut, mempelajari sejarah adalah hal yang penting. Mempelajari sejarah memberi kita kepercayaan pada asal usul kita, peradaban kita, dan kita melakukan pembangunan berdasarkan hal tersebut. Para penjajah cenderung mengasingkan kita dari masa lalu dan sejarah kita, dan hanya memaksakan bagian negatif dari sejarah kita."

- Nawal El Saadawi - Perjuangan dan Perlawanan Seorang Feminis Mesir

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Violence against women has taken on new and more vicious forms as traditional patriarchal structures have hybridized with the structures of capitalist patriarchy.

Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva - Ecofeminism

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Violence against women is as old as patriarchy. Traditional patriarchy has structured our world-views and mindsets, our social and cultural worlds on the basis of domination over women, and the denial of their full humanity and right to equality.

Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva - Ecofeminism

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With ecofeminism, the political focus turns outwards. Its first premiss is that the ‘material’ resourcing of women and of nature are structurally interconnected in the capitalist patriarchal system.

Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva - Ecofeminism

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Redirecting your thoughts by practicing self- care can help you feel calmer and more in control—and that enables you to tackle problems in a more constructive way.

Maureen Wilson - Positively Introverted: Finding Your Way in a World Full of People

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Getting a second job has never released us from the first. Two jobs have only meant for women even less time and energy to struggle against both. Moreover, a woman, working full-time in the home or outside of it as well, married or single, has to put hours of labor into reproducing her own labor power, and women well know the tyranny of this task, for a pretty dress and hairdo are conditions for their getting the job, whether on the marriage market or on the wage labor market.

Silvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero

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Simplicity has become so elusive and desirable because the modern age is so troublingly, infinitely noisy and abundant.

The School of Life - A Simpler Life

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We are bathed in options, surrounded by too much information with too many competing visions of happiness. We crave simplicity not because we are simple, but because we are drowning in complexity.

The School of Life - A Simpler Life

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Dignity is like clean air. You do not notice its absence unless it is short supply. You do not realize how much you need it, how important it is to you, until you don’t have it.”

Teo You Yenn - This Is What Inequality Looks Like

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Two blessings from the Almighty that many people take for granted – health and time. (Bukhārī).

Madiha Saeed - The Qur’anic Prescription: Unlocking the Secrets to Optimal Health

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If you lived within the permitted storylines, you gained the prestige of being “sorted”: of having your life perceived by others as being “on track”. If you had the shame of living outside of its permitted plotlines, you were the opposite of sorted: you were lost, drifting, or the odd one out.

Lucy Blake - No Family Is Perfect: A Guide to Embracing the Messy Reality

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when it comes to the perfect plotlines of the family story, many people feel like they are outside, looking in.

Lucy Blake - No Family Is Perfect: A Guide to Embracing the Messy Reality

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When it comes to family, unpicking what is myth from what is reality involves swimming against the tide. Messages about perfect, happy families are all around us. Images of selfless mothers and devoted dads are evoked in the speeches of politicians and religious leaders in countries around the world.

Lucy Blake - No Family Is Perfect: A Guide to Embracing the Messy Reality

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Some days you’re grateful for what you have, but other days you feel like a sad karaoke version of a Britney Spears song gone wrong on loop.

Ruzina Ahad - Dream Du'a Do: A Millennial Muslimah's Guide to Achieving Your Wildest Dreams