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“A teacher and parent should always be on the same page. Its like pushing a stalled car, the car needs an extra push, but if the person driving pushes the car back while the person helping is trying to push it forward, the car will not move. Same with a student. If a teacher is trying to educate, the parent at home should be educating the same things.”

“and Anna could smell sushi, baked bread, and frying hot dogs. She could even catch the faint tang of Indian spices- not the kinds of spices she was used to, of course, the very specific kind in pandhi curry or masala crab, but then she had never come across those flavors outside the small, beautiful corner of India that her mother had once called home. That said, this place did smell yummy. There was food everywhere she looked: street vendors, bakeries, cafés, take-out places, you name it. Hungry Heart Row, that's what this neighborhood was called, and it seemed its residents had taken that very seriously.”

“I picked up [the term 'pleasure activism'] from harm reductionist Keith Cylar, who I met only briefly before he passed on April 5, 2004 after twenty years of living with HIV. Initially, pleasure activism was about claiming our right to experience pleasure, to be safe and respected in the pleasures we choose. It was expanded for me over the years as I have come to believe that facts, guilt, and shame are limited motivations for creating change, even though those are the primary forces we use in our organizing work. I suspect that to really transform our society, we will need to make justice one of the most pleasurable experiences we can have.”