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Art by Laivi Põder (source)

"The moral component of history [...] is simply a single question, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power? What makes moments such as this one so dangerous, so clarifying, is that one way or another everyone is forced to answer."

Omar El Akkad, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

#quote #adultbooklr #reading #booklr #omar el akkad #don't mind me running around smacking people in the head with this book

"There's nothing feminist about having so many resources at your fingertips and choosing to be ignorant."

Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism

#for those who forget #adultbooklr #quote #reading #hood feminism #mikki kendall

mylittleredgirl

mercy seems like a long shot here, so my prayer for inauguration day 2025: may they be incompetent. may they just be really bad at implementation. may their egos choke their effectiveness. may they drown themselves week by week with infighting and selfish posturing. may they be easily distracted. may the very governors and senators and agencies and religious leaders that the new administration expects to be friendly force endless stalemates to preserve their own power. may every delay turn into a three ring blame circus so chaotic that no one remembers what they were doing. may the good and necessary parts of government be too boring to draw attention and keep running quietly in the background. may the next four years be full of sound and fury and signify nothing.

nameawoman

this blog is for floor people!!!!! we r all sitting on my rug together <3

#one of the great tragedies of my 30s is that now if i sit on the floor for 10 minutes my back hurts for 20 minutes after i pull myself up #but i still yearn for the floor

sawthefaeriequeen

We think because we have words, not the other way around, and the greater our vocabulary, the greater our ability to think conceptually. The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.

Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?, Madeleine L'Engle

Baldwin always has been and always will be the one I go to when everything is *waves around* whatever the fuck this is

#james baldwin #nothing personal #quote #adultbooklr #booklr #reading #since we in the US are all screwed #and while as a general rule the US deserves what it's about to get #a lot of the actual people in it do not #you know?

ferrralit

whitedogblog

Heathers of Pentlands, Scotland

sashayed

Mary Oliver, “Don’t Hesitate.”

werewiire

dorian & basil siblings and now white heathcliff. gothlit enjoyers are in the fucking trenches this year

sparvverius

thinking about the very common idea among antebellum american slaveowners that ex-slaves would initiate a race war as soon as they were free and that whites would never be safe among people they or their ancestors owned so they should be moved to a different country. and how that was completely stupid and the racial violence post-abolition was racist anti-black violence not slews of anti-white revenge killings across the nation and a dissolution of society. anyway thinking about that and also the insistence from the zionist crowd that if palestinians were given equal rights or even if the occupation slackened its grip a little every single israeli from the river to the sea would be murdered by vengeful palestinians.

beloved-icarus

You want me to use anti-ageing products? The thing that killed Dorian Gray?

grendelsmilf

I think the hot new trends for this summer should be reading comprehension and critical thinking skills

vigilantsycamore

"The Divine Comedy isn't funny because that's not what comedy meant back then" incorrect. the Divine Comedy is hilarious because partway through Dante's field trip to Hell, Virgil is like "and here's where we keep the Popes"