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“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.”
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“The hardest thing about writing is writing.”
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“Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.”
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“As soon as I enter the door of a tavern, I experience oblivion of care, and a freedom from solicitude. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.”
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“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
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Sensation Novels
— 3 members
— last activity Apr 07, 2013 11:07PM
A place to discuss and recommend the great sensation novels of the 1860s and 70s.
Literary journalism / creative nonfiction
— 161 members
— last activity Oct 30, 2016 06:00AM
An open group for discussion of any work that can be considered literary journalism, creative nonfiction, narrative journalism, docufiction...in short ...more
Workplace Democracy Reading Group
— 29 members
— last activity Oct 01, 2022 01:20PM
Reading group on the relationship between worker cooperatives and unions as both means of creating workplace democracy
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