
It is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us.
—Lewis Mumford, 1922
Be realistic, demand the impossible.
—graffito, Paris 1968
For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.
—Audre Lorde, 1984 Continue reading →
July 1, 2020
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