Aftershock Quotes

“You may find it both unsettling and liberating to realize that you are a process rather than an object, a verb rather than a noun. When we affirm that we are our bodies but deny that our bodies are property, we undermine one of the most destructive ideas in history: that people are something other than animals.”
― Pattrice Jones, Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies

“Historically and still today, men of many cultures have sought to transcend their own bodies while reducing women and animals to their body parts. Seeing themselves as more rational and self-determined, men claim the right to rule over those they see as more emotional, impulsive, and bound to bodily rhythms. Reduced to their bodies, women and animals are liable to be made into meat either literally, as in butchery, or figuratively, as in pornography.”
― Pattrice Jones, Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies