Sublime
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It’s the homogenizing logic of paranoia that works overtime to flatten or disregard such differences; it’s the homogenizing logic of paranoia that demands that all people have the same response to them, and always will.
Maggie Nelson • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
These youth are born into environments of state-sanctioned deprivation, or “organized abandonment,” as political geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls it.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
I openly embrace the label of bad feminist… I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying — trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world,... See more
Maria Popova • Bad Feminist: Roxane Gay on the Complexities and Blind Spots of the Equality Movement
Women fill with fury at waste, eco-apocalypse and the pressure to be flawless in a lyrical and oblique short story collection
Lauren Elkin • Florida by Lauren Groff review – rage and refusal as Earth reaps the whirlwind
I make my choice of those two nonchoices. My task is changed: not to uphold the law, or another law, but to maintain the skin that keeps law in place. Two laws in two places, in fact.
China Miéville • The City & The City: A Novel
“She and the women like her were ornery, assertive, relentlessly capable, weathered and threadbare. She was a monument of dedication to her family, her work, and her community.”
Adam Lehrer • Who’s Afraid of Elena Velez?
