A French term used to describe the environmental factors that affect a crop’s phenotype.
Cole Arthur Riley – BLACK LITURGIES
“The oppressor can never be trusted as historian. Our task is preservation. Collective memory is a liberation practice. Remember and tell it.” – Cole Arthur Riley
Jarod K. Anderson – Water
“The water in your body is just visiting. It was a thunderstorm a week ago. It will be the ocean soon enough. Most of your cells come and go like morning dew. We are more weather pattern than stone monument. Sunlight on mist. Summer lightning. Your choices outweigh your substance.” Jarod K Anderson, Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
Bell Hooks – Healing
“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.” Bell Hooks
Audre Lorde – community
“Without community, there is no liberation.” – Audre Lorde
Carmen Maria Machado – value of proof
“What is the value of proof? What does it mean for something to be true? If a tree falls in the woods and pins a wood thrush to the earth, and she shrieks and shrieks but no one hears her, did she make a sound? Did she suffer? Who’s to say” Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House
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“Trauma almost invariably involves not being seen, not being mirrored, and not being taken into account.” Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
James Baldwin – Art is a kind of confession
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.” Conversations with James Baldwin
The Water Dancer
“I had, by then, done my share of reading on Philadelphia, so I knew that, in another time, when the Task was here in Philadelphia, the city had fallen victim to a fever. And among the men who combatted this fever was Benjamin Rush, a famous doctor, which is hard to countenance given the theory he put forth in defense …
In the Dream House – etymology of archive
“The word archive Jacques Derrida tells us, comes from the ancient Greek work “the house of the ruler.” When I first learned about this etymology, I was taken with the use of house (a lover of haunted house stories, I’m a sucker for architecture metaphors), but it is the power, the authority, that is the most telling element. What is …
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