No Liberation Without Education
@foolmetw1ce.bsky.social
Mostly sharing quotes from books I'm reading 🏵️ She/Her/They 🏵️ Intersectional Feminist 🏵️ Annoying leftist 🏵️ Goth Mom 🏵️ Video Editor
♌🌞♓🌜♍⬆️
♌🌞♓🌜♍⬆️
"Recognizing enoughness is a radical act In an economy that is always urging us to consume more." -Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
December 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Recognizing enoughness is a radical act In an economy that is always urging us to consume more." -Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
"Why then, have we permitted the dominance of economic systems that commoditize everything? That create scarcity instead of abundance. That promote accumulation, rather than sharing. We have surrendered our values to an economic system that is actively harming what we love." #booksky
December 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Why then, have we permitted the dominance of economic systems that commoditize everything? That create scarcity instead of abundance. That promote accumulation, rather than sharing. We have surrendered our values to an economic system that is actively harming what we love." #booksky
"When something moves from the status of "gift" to the status of "commodity", we can become detached from mutual responsibility. We know the consequences of that detachment. Why then, have we permitted the dominance of economic systems that commoditize everything?" -Robin Wall Kimmerer
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"When something moves from the status of "gift" to the status of "commodity", we can become detached from mutual responsibility. We know the consequences of that detachment. Why then, have we permitted the dominance of economic systems that commoditize everything?" -Robin Wall Kimmerer
Reposted by No Liberation Without Education
December 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"What is even the point of having a world if you're not going to pass it on to the next generation?" -Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary
December 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"What is even the point of having a world if you're not going to pass it on to the next generation?" -Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary
"It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power." -Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters #booksky
December 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power." -Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters #booksky
"Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be out own histories without knowing the other stories." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle #booksky
December 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be out own histories without knowing the other stories." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle #booksky
"There are more black people incarcerated and directly under the control of correctional agencies in the second decade of the twenty-first century than were enslaved in 1850." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
December 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"There are more black people incarcerated and directly under the control of correctional agencies in the second decade of the twenty-first century than were enslaved in 1850." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
"It wasn't a single individual or two who created [the Montgomery Bus Boycott] movement, that, as a matter of fact, it was largely women within collective contexts, Black women, poor black women who were maids, washerwomen, and cooks. These were the people who collectively refused to ride the bus."
December 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"It wasn't a single individual or two who created [the Montgomery Bus Boycott] movement, that, as a matter of fact, it was largely women within collective contexts, Black women, poor black women who were maids, washerwomen, and cooks. These were the people who collectively refused to ride the bus."
"One of the most hidden areas of US history is the period of Radical Reconstruction... There was black elected officials. Then we had to wait more than another century to get them back...People in this country are still unaware of the fact that former slaves brought public education to the South."
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"One of the most hidden areas of US history is the period of Radical Reconstruction... There was black elected officials. Then we had to wait more than another century to get them back...People in this country are still unaware of the fact that former slaves brought public education to the South."
"We also question whether incarcerating individual perpetrators does anything more than reproduce the very violence that perpetrators have allegedly committed. In other words criminalization allows the problem to persist." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
#booksky #abolition
#booksky #abolition
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"We also question whether incarcerating individual perpetrators does anything more than reproduce the very violence that perpetrators have allegedly committed. In other words criminalization allows the problem to persist." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
#booksky #abolition
#booksky #abolition
"Feminism involves so much more than gender equality...Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Feminism involves so much more than gender equality...Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
"Don't even become too attached to the concept of gender... The more closely we examine it, the more that we discover that it is embedded in a range of social, political, cultural, and ideological formations. It is not one thing." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"Don't even become too attached to the concept of gender... The more closely we examine it, the more that we discover that it is embedded in a range of social, political, cultural, and ideological formations. It is not one thing." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
"We learn a great deal about the reach of the prison system, about the nature of the prison-industrial complex, about the reach of abolition by examining the particular struggles of trans prisoners, and especially trans women." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"We learn a great deal about the reach of the prison system, about the nature of the prison-industrial complex, about the reach of abolition by examining the particular struggles of trans prisoners, and especially trans women." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
"There is a great deal to be learned about the potential of decarceration and [prison] abolition... By looking very closely at the deinstitutionalization of asylums and psychiatric institutions." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"There is a great deal to be learned about the potential of decarceration and [prison] abolition... By looking very closely at the deinstitutionalization of asylums and psychiatric institutions." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
"The problem in America, arguably, is that the Prosperity Gospel has taken over Christianity and it's no longer a moderating influence on Capitalism." -Sarah Marshall on Behind the Bastards
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"The problem in America, arguably, is that the Prosperity Gospel has taken over Christianity and it's no longer a moderating influence on Capitalism." -Sarah Marshall on Behind the Bastards
"If the intersectionality of struggles against racism, homophobia, and transphobia is minimized, we will never achieve significant victories in our fight for justice." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"If the intersectionality of struggles against racism, homophobia, and transphobia is minimized, we will never achieve significant victories in our fight for justice." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
"Any critical engagement with racism requires us to understand the tyranny of the universal. For most of our history the very category 'human' has not embraced Black people and POC. Its abstractness has been colored white and gendered male." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"Any critical engagement with racism requires us to understand the tyranny of the universal. For most of our history the very category 'human' has not embraced Black people and POC. Its abstractness has been colored white and gendered male." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
"Leadership is not a male prerogative. Women have always done the work of organizing Black radical movements, so women should also be in the leadership...When a black women stand up...earth-shaking changes occur." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"Leadership is not a male prerogative. Women have always done the work of organizing Black radical movements, so women should also be in the leadership...When a black women stand up...earth-shaking changes occur." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." -Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." -Gandalf, The Fellowship of the Ring
"Police departments...Have acquired military surplus from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the Department of Defense Excess Property Program...demonstrators challenging racist police violence were confronted by police officers...armed with military weapons and driving armored vehicles."
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"Police departments...Have acquired military surplus from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the Department of Defense Excess Property Program...demonstrators challenging racist police violence were confronted by police officers...armed with military weapons and driving armored vehicles."
"I know that no matter what, I am wonderful."- Becky Chambers, a Psalm for the wild- built
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"I know that no matter what, I am wonderful."- Becky Chambers, a Psalm for the wild- built
"It is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it." -Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"It is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it." -Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built
"25% of the world's incarcerated population serves as fodder for a vast prison- industrial complex with global dimensions that profit from strategies designed to hide social problems that have remained unaddressed since the era of slavery." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"25% of the world's incarcerated population serves as fodder for a vast prison- industrial complex with global dimensions that profit from strategies designed to hide social problems that have remained unaddressed since the era of slavery." -Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle