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“Mothering, for me, means willpower, fortitude, grit. It is the transcendent power to multiply oneself, succeeded by the supreme humility to serve that second self.”

Book:The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

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The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

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“And perhaps most awkwardly, they have been left unable properly to explain why, internationally, half the population in a given culture might be disproportionately subject to specific experiences like rape, sexual slavery, female genital mutilation, honour killing, female infanticide, banishment to menstrual huts, surrogacy tourism or death by stoning for the act of adultery. Clue: it’s not possession of a female gender identity.”

Feminism Gender Critical

Book:Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Source: Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

“White women wanted parity with white men at any cost, including by avidly taking on the domination of Black and Brown people. As white feminists have progressed within their societies, and began to occupy increasingly important positions, they're constructing a feminism that uses the lives of Black and Brown people as arenas in which they can prove their credentials to white men.”

Feminism White Feminism

Book:Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Source: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

“The questions now really are: why is pornography credible in our society? how can anyone believe it? And then: how subhuman would women have to be for the pornography to be true? To the men who use the pornography, how subhuman are women?”

Feminism

Book:Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women

Source: Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women

“Strong is strong and weak is weak, and it doesn’t matter if you wear breeches or skirts if you’re the latter. Life will hammer you flat.”

Feminism Equality

Book:The Devil and the Dark Water

Source: The Devil and the Dark Water

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