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“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about. Even if the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing. Presumably this was how the industry made money.”

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Book:Normal People

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“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about. Even if the writer himself was a good person, and even if his book really was insightful, all books were ultimately marketed as status symbols, and all writers participated to some degree in this marketing. Presumably this was how the industry made money. Literature, in the way it appeared at these public readings, had no potential as a form of resistance to anything.”

Culture Literature Money Class Books Marketing

Book:Normal People

Source: Normal People

“Education, like the job market, is a children’s party game where everyone gets the same prize. Yet many are laboring under the misapprehension that the goal of -equity- can be successfully reached by setting the bar so low that anybody can step over it with ease.”

Education Class Social Justice Crt Low Standard

Book:The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

“Katie had the same hard look of determination in her eyes that I did and knew the life of grasping tightly to your dreams, and holding onto them wherever they took you.”

Inspiration Class Writer

Author:Stephanie Land

“A know that some rich, white looking people don't want to have anything to do with the likes of us. But this world is a big place and have enough space for all the different race of people that God make — black, white, yellow, red and all the ones that don't know where they belong, like the girl you fight with at school. Don't let anybody make you feel less than what you are. Work hard and do your best and even though I not a Christian but God must help you one way of the other.”

Race Existence Class Belonging

Book:Inner City Girl

Source: Inner City Girl

“By itself, legal abortion does little for poor and working-class women who have neither the means to pay for it nor access to clinics that provide it. Rather, reproductive justice requires free, universal, not-for-profit health care, as well as the end of racist, eugenicist practices in the medical profession.”

Political Justice Class Feminism Crisis Equality Abortion Healthcare Neoliberalism Intersectionality

Book:Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

“laws criminalizing gender violence are a cruel hoax if they turn a blind eye to the structural sexism and racism of criminal justice systems, leaving intact police brutality, mass incarceration, deportation threats, military interventions, and harassment and abuse in the workplace.”

Political Justice Class Feminism Crisis Equality Domestic Abuse Neoliberalism Intersectionality Systemic Oppression

Book:Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

“Business class, it's like first class with fewer fake rich people, no trust fund babies, no overnight celebrities, just rich people who are serious about their money.”

Money Class Rich Flying Luxury Celebrities Buisness

Book:Lost Seeking Dreams

Source: Lost Seeking Dreams

“He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and made horsey if he was trying to get to a society party, and his father’s East End adopted with relative ease when he wanted to be taken as working class.”

Class Journalism

Book:Ordinary Human Failings

Source: Ordinary Human Failings

“Intersectionality […] is often reduced, in common understanding, to a due consideration of the various axes of oppression and privilege: race, class, sexuality, disability, and so on. […] The central insight of intersectionality is that any liberation movement — feminism, anti-racism, the labor movement — that focuses only on what all members of the relevant group (women, people of color, the working class) have in common is a movement that will best serve those members of the group who are least oppressed.”

Race Class Human Rights Gender Oppression Intersectionality Leftism

Author:Amia Srinivasan

“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort, then erupt. You look too closely into your poems, or listen too closely to them as they arrive in whispers, and the features inside you - call it heart, call it mind, call it soul - accelerate out of control. They distort and they erupt, and it is one strange pain. You realize, then, that you can't attempt breaking down too many barriers in too short a time, because there are as many horrors waiting to get in at you as there are parts of yourself pushing to break out, and with the same, or more, fevered determination.”

Book:Forced Entries- The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973

Source: Forced Entries- The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973