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“It’s what my female body was meant for, right? Take male shit, waste, filth, sperm. And in this brain, in this Womb, grow something better. Form a new line, Reclaim the story as mine. But as strong as I am, It will be a long, long time Until I grow this Into something worthwhile.”

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Book:Elsewhere, Within Here

Source: Elsewhere, Within Here

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Poetry Feminism

Book:The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Mind, Heart and Soul

Source: The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Mind, Heart and Soul

“the thing that scares men with power most is a woman with more of it.”

Book:This Vicious Grace

Source: This Vicious Grace

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Book:After Sappho

Source: After Sappho

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Power Fantasy Feminism Trauma Thought Provoking

Book:A Vision in Smoke

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Power Fantasy Feminism Deception

Book:A Vision in Smoke

Source: A Vision in Smoke

“For power to be withdrawn, power itself would have to be understood as the retractable operation of volition; indeed, the heterosexual contract would be understood to be sustained through a series of choices, just as the social contract in Locke or Rousseau is understood to presuppose the rational choice or deliberate will of those it is said to govern. If power is not reduced to volition, however, and the classical liberal and existential model of freedom is refused, then power relations can be understood, as I think they ought to be, as constraining and constituting the very possibilities of volition. Hence, power can neither be withdrawn nor refused, but only redeployed.”

Feminism Gender Lgbt

Book:Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Source: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

“As feminism has sought to become integrally related to struggles against racial and colonialist oppression, it has become increasingly important to resist the colonizing epistemological strategy that would subordinate different configurations of domination under the rubric of a transcultural notion of patriarchy.”

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Book:Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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