/shēsh/ · they/them
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i make software, noodles, and poor judgment calls
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i read slowly and rarely but i wanna change that. i want to read about things i don't know much about. on this account i'll probably focus on anarchism and how it relates to many things, intersectionality, and environmental issues
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Social reproduction theory is a big idea. It explores how the daily renewal of human life, and therefore human labour, …
A rousing call to arms, packed with surprising insights, that explores how carrying "the mental load" - the thankless day-to-day …
In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist …
It's like this system is a monster, and even if you can see how wrong it is, you're not allowed to get out of its jaws. You're supposed to get eaten, and then do something about it later. It's the inhumanity of it that gets me, how the process itself seems to have more value than any human being caught up in its belly. We have to proceed because these are the proceedings, so they have to go on. It feels like being crushed, like being broken by something you can't even get a hand on.
The violence of the paperwork.
— Abolitionist Intimacies by El Jones (Page 59)
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism," which he takes to describe "the widespread sense …
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A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, …
This book is possibly one of the most beautiful things I've ever read, and it was one that I didn't want to end. Rarely is that ever a feeling that I have about a novel, but this one... It felt like an unfortunate thing for it to come to a close, despite its subject matter (which was quite heavy with a focus on colonisation and the love of two women and how those dynamics interconnect).
I love this book, and it's one with a message so rare that I can't think of another one like it. I would encourage everyone to seek it out.
This book is possibly one of the most beautiful things I've ever read, and it was one that I didn't want to end. Rarely is that ever a feeling that I have about a novel, but this one... It felt like an unfortunate thing for it to come to a close, despite its subject matter (which was quite heavy with a focus on colonisation and the love of two women and how those dynamics interconnect).
I love this book, and it's one with a message so rare that I can't think of another one like it. I would encourage everyone to seek it out.
A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power
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In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist …
Do you think you're a good person? I ask another time. Do you feel like a good person?
Really, it's like my mom said, I have to look back and find something I love and cherish and hold onto that and make it something positive instead of the negative stuff.
It's crazy. Sometimes you don't even realize that you're, like, using the past to keep you down and back and stuff. It just happens and you don't realize it until you really sit down and think. I've definitely used the past to hold me back and put myself down, stress myself out. I guess I feel like a bad person in that type of way, where I've regretted my actions.
*And I know I'm not a bad person, it's just like, one bad moment really brought me down. But I'll bounce back. I'll bounce back." — B.
— Abolitionist Intimacies by El Jones (Page 26)
When the rallying cry “Black Lives Matter” was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the …
returned it to the library because i wasn't reading it
returned it to the library because i wasn't reading it
In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. …
This New York Times best-selling book is a guide for families, educators, and communities to raise their children to be …
This New York Times best-selling book is a guide for families, educators, and communities to …
some good notes about what it means to be anti racist as a white person. also very americanocentric, often describing things that are particular to america or the united states as being global
mentioned in raising white kids
