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If you're not spending Easter watching Pride & Prejudice (2005) in theaters with tiny bottles of wine and too much popcorn, then you're doing it wrong

If your job asks you to violently break into a *Quaker meetinghouse* with weapons to arrest people holding a nonviolent meeting...
You gotta quit your job, buddy.

"The moral component of history [...] is simply a single question, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power? What makes moments such as this one so dangerous, so clarifying, is that one way or another everyone is forced to answer."
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YouTube video by Shakespeare's Globe The Strangers' Case | Shakespeare’s rallying cry for humanity | Shakespeare's Globe

Seems like as good a time as any to bring back one of Shakespeare's true gems

If we are not only incapable of seeking converts, but unwilling to accept them, where does that leave us?

The Fred Hamptons and Bobby Seales of the world met people where they were and persuaded them. They provided service to communities and shaped peoples politics from there. The way is clear.

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there.

The show must go on.

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"You can't have a healthy relationship with your body when your body is treated as criminal simply for existing."
Mikki Kendall, HOOD FEMINISM
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Say what you want about Kendrick but the fact that people are figuring out what “40 acres and a mule” in 2025 is why any education to black history is important, no matter no big nor small.

I just finished this one and already miss it!

Loved this one!

"We are part of the society that we are fighting to change, and we cannot absolve ourselves of our role in it."
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"There's nothing feminist about having so many resources at your fingertips and choosing to be ignorant."
Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism
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Quotes from The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates coming in, punching us right in the gut, especially considering, y'know, everything.
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Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article) A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

🥹 It's just so beautiful

Celebrating the third day of Black History Month by rereading some of our favorite essays and speeches by Bayard Rustin, whose Quaker background informed his commitment to nonviolent resistance and his support of and advocacy for worker's rights, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ rights.

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"It is a terrible thing, simply, to be trapped in one's history, and attempt, in the same motion (and in this, our life!) to accept, deny, reject, and redeem it - and, also, on whatever level, to profit from it."
James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work
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Yes, that too. It is always a lot to take in, and then he's always dropping references that I then want to run and look into. The one I'm reading now is all about movies and I feel like I have to watch them over again now that I've got his take on them.

I'm always a little reluctant to read a Baldwin for the first time because there are not many that I haven't read at this point, and I'm super not looking forward for the day when there's none left for me to read for first time. BUT... desperate times and stuff, so here we are.
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The world is on fire, but I do have this little nonsense book (my second least favorite Austen) up next for when I am not being consumed by the horrors and instead yearn for some secondhand embarrassment 🙃
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Love this! Why not start one here?

"Love ain't enough sometimes when it ties anybody. Everybody has got their own feet and their own wanting to use 'em, and sometimes when love comes in the way of that, it ain't anything but a dead wall."
Mary Wilkins Freeman, "One Good Time"
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Hanging out in DC with just, like, a few people.

It is snowy and gross outside, but the Galsworthy middle class toxic love triangle tea is piping hot
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It's called Fraternity! I've read Forsyte Saga and another one of his (I think called Dark Flower) and they've all packed quite a punch by the end.

Galsworthy coming through with another one of those books that's going to hurt my feelings. 💙📚

Moved my upstairs book downstairs and my downstairs book upstairs, and this has somehow thrown my weekend into a chaotic mess. 💙📚