“Although still driven by curiosity and ambition, she did not realize quite how much she had herself become viewed as a curiosity of her time. Still less could she know how, much later, she would come to be seen as the paradigmatic woman of the High Renaissance.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
“The Italian Renaissance was as much an age of culture and learning as of violence and deceit.”
Source: The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
“Azad Earth Army (The Sonnet)
From river to the sea,
Al Shams to Alpha Centauri,
I'll radicalize each child into
a volcanic veteran of inclusivity.
Palestine, Kashmir, America,
every territory will be humanized,
without resorting to canon calls,
for my soldiers are walking dynamite!
Give me a speck of spinal nerve,
I'll weave awaken bulldozing thunder!
My patriots are keeper of the world,
not stately pawn of terror and blunder.
Awake, arise, adopt the world,
let no monkey nationalize your humanity.
Final call to a free* world, you,
o bravehearts, are my *Azad Earth Army!”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Every generation needs a Naskar, and the Naskar of your generation is you.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Every naskar material that exists outside the books, exists only to redirect you to the canon - the gifs, the voice recordings, the occasional merch and music-like ai audio, everything - don't confuse the window for the world.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.” …Anias Nin”
Source: SINFULLICIOUS
“I’ve a trunk full of books. The porters will despise me, but I'll be the most prepared Englishwoman ever to set foot on Egyptian sand.”
Source: Light of a Nile Moon
“My mother said the bizarre name Raccoona had surely been inspired, at least on a subliminal level, by the masks raccoons don't wear but simply have - the ones given them by nature..... [S]he pointed out that Le Guin had suspected all along that Raccoona and Tiptree were two authors that came from the same source, but in a letter to Alice she wrote that she preferred Tiptree to Raccoona: 'Raccoona, I think, has less control, thus less wit and power.'
Le Guin, Mother said, had understood something deep. 'When you take on a male persona, something happens.'
When I asked her what that was, she sat back in her chair, waved her arm, and smiled. 'You get to be the father.”
Source: The Blazing World
“They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died.”
Source: The Death of Vivek Oji
“I walked into a hipster coffee shop and asked for a cup of 'gender fluid'. The cashier just pointed to the barista.”
Source: Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage