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“When there is truth which affirms itself insistently in a way that has no end and no resolution, when it receives no responsiveness or recognition, and has nowhere to site itself but in itself, entrenched in its own starkness - that’s the flat place.”
― Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

“Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is that people don’t know how to hear them.”
― Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

“Capitalism requires there to be someone at the bottom to exploit from. It requires inequality. We can never have collective liberation under a system like this.”
― Mikaela Loach, It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World

“Consumers' cannot stop climate change because capitalism is not compatible with a climate-just world. But active citizens CAN. Movements CAN. WE CAN when we challenge and disrupt these systems, rather than limiting our power and actions to those which are within it.”
― Mikaela Loach, It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World