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If They Come for Us: Poems by Fatimah Asghar

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5.0

“I think I believe in freedom I just don’t know where it is. I think I believe in home, I just don’t know where to look.”

“My love for nature is like my love for most things:
fickle & theoretical. Too many bugs
& I want a divorce.

My love for the past is like my love
for most things. I only feel it when
I leave.”
Memoirs from the Women's Prison by Nawal El Saadawi

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4.0

“Fearing servility, people become servile.”

“We will destroy this prison! We will not die without noise!”

“True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugated people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.”
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

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4.0

“The worst injury is feeling you don’t belong so much

to you—“
I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had on by Khadijah Queen

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5.0

“& maybe it was me maaaaaaaaybe & after some drama & some therapy & seeing him again a decade later & making out again & saying no to the undefined because you can’t rush a Pisces into making a decision I am tough enough to know what I can take & satisfied with keeping stars on the screen & out of my eyes my
well-used heart”
Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: And Other Stories by Chavisa Woods

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3.0

“Always be prepared for the apocalypse. Or rather, be willing to see the apocalypse that is happening around you.”
Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee by Megan Boyle

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4.0

“some moments are not meaningful at all...

i think some moments exist to be simple sentences that don’t necessarily have a greater purpose than to be exactly what they are”

“i keep thinking about updating my blog, twitter, and facebook with ‘AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,’ then leaving the internet indefinitely”
You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian

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3.0

Cat Person is definitely at the top of these stories