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“Strange that people are happy to adopt epithets they would fight to the death to throw off had they been imposed.”

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The story follows a lone figure navigating a complex, technologically advanced society, reflecting on the implications of artificial intelligence and the human condition. more

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“You never forget your first "faggot." Because the memory, in its way, makes you. It becomes a spine for the body of anxieties and insecurities that will follow, something to hang all that meat on. Before you were just scrawny; now you're scrawny because you're a faggot. Before you were just bookish; now you're bookish because you're a faggot.”

Gay Prejudice Lgbtq Slurs Bookishness Scrawniness

Book:How We Fight For Our Lives

Source: How We Fight For Our Lives

“All down the years, words have been going around like pieces of shit, only to get stuck on a truck bumper with up-yours pride. Rednecks, moonshiners, ridge runners, hicks. Deplorables.”

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Book:Demon Copperhead

Source: Demon Copperhead

“Finally, I found that as a result of my abusive childhood I had developed the ability to deny my feeling, intuitive self. As a child this ability kept me alive. I was powerless, small & inexperienced. It was critical that I behave according to expectations--that I not resist my father's violence, that I cast my eyes downward in a posture of guilt, & that I accept my elders' view of reality...My childhood patterns fed into the mounting abuse--it did NOT cause it. This pattern does not make me responsible for Amy's violent & abusive behavior.”

Abuse Domestic Violence Abuse Survivors Abuse Recovery Family Violence

Author:Kerry Lobel

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