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“Feminism asks: what would it be to end the political, social, sexual, economic, psychological, and physical subordination of women? It answers: we do not know, let us try and see.” — Amia Srinivasan

“There is no single story that tells the truth of this community of cells self-organizing within our skin.” — Susan Raffo

“It is time … to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
— Maya Angelou

Data reveals the roots of why people are incarcerated — and indicates why prison might not be the solution.

The oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle. — bell hooks

The is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. — Audre Lorde

“Imagination shared creates collaboration, and collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.” — Terry Tempest Williams

I had to focus not on what I could see, but on how the sound bouncing off me in relation to structures and environments locates me in a constantly shifting relationship to you, whoever you are by now.
—Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons From Marine Mammals”

Melissa Petrangelo Scaia: “My frustration is not that we do not know how to end violence against women. It is that we have not changed the thinking that women are less.”

The people in these pages remind us that this moment in time is very much connected to what came before and what will follow.

The long-standing experiment in clear-cutting the environment in order to prioritize one objective does not work.

How do we build true equality without duplicating the short-lived experiment of Reconstruction after the Civil War?