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Book cover for Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
The racial imbalance in New York City’s foster care population was also mind-boggling: out of forty-two thousand children in the system at the end of 1997, only thirteen hundred were white, though a majority of the city’s children were ...more
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Katie Langston
“I imagined I must not speak, in order to preserve, impossibly, my chance to speak. I nearly wretched on the feelings I forced myself to swallow.”
Katie Langston, Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace

Jen Winston
“Maybe confusion is as queer as it gets.”
Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jodi Picoult
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Jen Winston
“When I say Queer love, I mean love that makes its own rules. Love that exists without borders and thrives without clean lines. Love that creates more space than it takes up.”
Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

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