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Fernleaf
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Chapter 17: Parenting while Marginalized
"I don't pretend to know what it would be like to raise a child on a reservation, or to be a migrant worker who has to worry about deportation and access to education. I do know that I need to listen to the women in those positions, follow their lead on what would help the most and what would be detrimental."
— Mar 29, 2025 07:01PM
"I don't pretend to know what it would be like to raise a child on a reservation, or to be a migrant worker who has to worry about deportation and access to education. I do know that I need to listen to the women in those positions, follow their lead on what would help the most and what would be detrimental."
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Fernleaf
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Chapter 18: Allies, Anger and Accomplices
"But to paraphrase James Baldwin, to be aware of what is happening in this world is to be in an almost perpetual state of rage. Everyone should be angry about injustice, not just those experiencing it."
— Mar 29, 2025 07:03PM
"But to paraphrase James Baldwin, to be aware of what is happening in this world is to be in an almost perpetual state of rage. Everyone should be angry about injustice, not just those experiencing it."
Fernleaf
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Chapter 15: Housing
"When we talk about housing and feminism, we must remember that it isn't just the concern of the young woman eager to start her business or find a home for her family. It's a concern for older women, for our elders who rely on the rhythms and the norms of their community to be able to age in place with dignity."
— Mar 28, 2025 06:09PM
"When we talk about housing and feminism, we must remember that it isn't just the concern of the young woman eager to start her business or find a home for her family. It's a concern for older women, for our elders who rely on the rhythms and the norms of their community to be able to age in place with dignity."
Fernleaf
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Chapter 14: Education
"Calls for increasing school safety rarely acknowledge how policing affects students of color. There's no safety in being profiled, in being surveilled and harassed in a place that should be about opportunities and not total obedience."
— Mar 27, 2025 06:35PM
"Calls for increasing school safety rarely acknowledge how policing affects students of color. There's no safety in being profiled, in being surveilled and harassed in a place that should be about opportunities and not total obedience."
Fernleaf
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Chapter 13: Race, Poverty, and Politics
"The fact is that the harm-reducing votes of marginalized people will never be enough to outweigh the stupidity of white people who vote for racism at their own expense."
— Mar 27, 2025 06:13PM
"The fact is that the harm-reducing votes of marginalized people will never be enough to outweigh the stupidity of white people who vote for racism at their own expense."
Fernleaf
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Chapter 12: Fear and Feminism
"It's bad enough that white women won't even vote to protect themselves; what's worse is that as a voting bloc they have enough power to harm others."
"So white feminism is going to have to get comfortable with the idea that until they challenge their racist aunts, parents, cousins and so on, it is definitely all white women who are responsible."
— Mar 26, 2025 06:49PM
"It's bad enough that white women won't even vote to protect themselves; what's worse is that as a voting bloc they have enough power to harm others."
"So white feminism is going to have to get comfortable with the idea that until they challenge their racist aunts, parents, cousins and so on, it is definitely all white women who are responsible."
Fernleaf
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Chapter 11: Missing and Murdered
"This doesn't mean that white women who go missing don't deserve every bit of attention, care and concern from the public, police and the press. It does mean that the same level of concern should be given to all."
— Mar 26, 2025 05:46PM
"This doesn't mean that white women who go missing don't deserve every bit of attention, care and concern from the public, police and the press. It does mean that the same level of concern should be given to all."
Fernleaf
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Chapter 8: Black Girls don't have Eating Disorders
"We can't afford to keep pretending that mental health issues stop at the boundaries of whiteness."
— Mar 24, 2025 09:26PM
"We can't afford to keep pretending that mental health issues stop at the boundaries of whiteness."
Fernleaf
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Chapter 6: How to Write about Black Women
"The emotional labor required to be respectable, to never ruffle anyone's feathers, to not get angry enough to challenge much less confront those who might have harmed you, is incredibly onerous precisely because it is so dehumanizing."
"I know we can come to a place where we embrace differences instead of pretending that freedom comes from erasing them."
— Mar 23, 2025 06:19PM
"The emotional labor required to be respectable, to never ruffle anyone's feathers, to not get angry enough to challenge much less confront those who might have harmed you, is incredibly onerous precisely because it is so dehumanizing."
"I know we can come to a place where we embrace differences instead of pretending that freedom comes from erasing them."
