New word! Antipathy = deep seated hate, opposite of empathy

"Why can't I get to want?" - N. Oumou Sylla

2/2 not have a "self" worth defending." - Mariame Kaba

1/2 CW: SA, misogynoir

"There was a time in [USA] when it was presumed that Black women could not be raped. ... If Black women's bodies can always be violated and if Black women are easily killable, then the notion of self-defense can never apply. Black women do

"If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformational are undergoing with the understanding that *we do not know enough to be pessimistic*" - Hazel Henderson

I feel like I'm just quoting the whole book so far 😂

"Possibility is the hope we wear when we charge into battle." - Kelly Hayes

"How can inevitability - a construct of the wicked - be ripped apart?" - Kelly Hayes

Examples:
Apple is a fruit. All fruit is good. So apples are good
All dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; so all dogs have four legs
Major: All women like to shop. Minor: John likes to shop. Conclusion: John's a woman
All books have words. A shopping list has words. Shopping list is a book

"the ultimate claustrophobia is syllogism
the ultimate claustrophobia is "it all adds up"" - di Prima

syllogism: logical argument applying deductive reasoning 2 arrive at a conclusion based on 2 propositions that are asserted/assumed to be true.

"These days, becoming radical ... [is] a leap toward allowing yourself to believe in the possibility of our collective survival - and to believe that even if we don't make it, we are all still forth fighting for, to the last breath." - Maya Schenwar

"Hope and grief can coexist, ... and if we wish to transform the world, we must learn to hold both simultaneously." - Kelly and Mariame

"Radical ... is synonymous with vital" - "designating the humour or moisture once thought once thought to be present in all living organisms as a necessary condition of their vitality". ... becoming more courageous ... will indeed be a necessary condition for life on Earth". - Maya Schenwar

"We *all* have a role in imagining and building the world we want to live in. No one gets to simply ask". - Maya Schenwar

Above is from the foreword by Maya Schenwar

"As Angela Davis says, "radical" means "grasping things at the root"".