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They knew that evidence-based was nothing more than a formal way of saying, Despite not knowing you, we will fix you.
Can there be healing without forgiveness?
I’ve been forever marked, he told me a few days before he overdosed. And to think, we thought the prison system was corrupt, but the reality is, it was just preparation for what came next.
Had she been paying attention, she would have known it hadn’t happened overnight, that it took a million tiny stabs to bleed democracy dry.
He’d planted the seed of resentment, watered it with constant news coverage of prisoners going to college, learning trade skills, reading books, working out, doing the things they did with their time. And in the same breath, he could feign innocence whenever he received opposition, could hold his hands up and say, Don’t blame me for the cycle of violence. If anything, I’ve set everyone free.
How come everything that’s important isn’t good? And everything that’s good isn’t important?”
our bodies, dipping and diving like currents of energy throughout the room, feel like small sparks of resistance, our miniature revolution. These moments of joy belong to us and no one else.
1. Not deciding is deciding, too. _____ 2. You can feel the tectonic plates of your world shifting beneath you. _____ 3. Love is not a finite thing. _____ 4. Your story was never just your story. _____ 5. Pleasure can exist on its own, without the intrusion of shame. _____ 6. You were right: remembering is a courageous act. _____ 7. It’s time to tip the scales. _____ 8. It is possible for an answer to be both true and false at once. _____
