Federica Rampi

“In our modern age, cell phone technology permits us to record the constant brutality that occurs all around us; we experience not an uptick in violence but a new kind of witnessing.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“Questa sera Tardegardo, come suo costume, si trattenne lunga pezza al verone a contemplare il notturno stellato. Io non ardii di raggiungerlo, ma vidi egualmente, da certo luccicore, ch’avea il guardo pieno di lagrime, e, al solito, ne provai viva pena. Mi parve anche che tremasse, e osservandolo meglio (pur discosto com’ero), che movesse le labbra alla volta della luna, splendidissima e tersa qual da tempo non si mostrava.”
― Michele Mari, Io venìa pien d'angoscia a rimirarti

“People on the streets are dehumanized the same way settlers dehumanized the Indigenous, to steal the land of abundance at gunpoint, to tax the land to the fullest.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“The same people that outlawed the practice of Native American Medicine (without a colonizer centric degree), outlawed the traditional practice of healing those that are hurt/ill without expecting anything in return. Free healthcare. The basis of community.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine