Never before have I felt so imprisoned by something that wasn't a prison, something that was merely my own life.

Disfigured
by Amanda Leduc

To pretend that you belonged even if the world didn't make you feel that way. There was power in assimilating. It was a power that had little to do with the strength and everything to do with survival.

Disfigured
by Amanda Leduc

For a moment, she was overcome. Memories of the life she'd lost. Thoughts of the person she might have been but never was.

Nevernight
by Jay Kristoff

Disability is not a 'brave struggle' or 'courage in the face of adversity' ... disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.

by Neil Marcus

Labeling something is personal rather than political is an excellent way for those in power to deny discrimination and inequity.

Beasts of Burden
by Sunaura Taylor

Denying someone else's justice because you do not yet have your own is never a good idea.

Beasts of Burden
by Sunaura Taylor

But how do you escape sadness when it permeates every corner of your day? Where do you go when even your dreams are filled with worry and grief, when your mind is exactly to think you can't escape?

Disfigured
by Amanda Leduc

We look at things ... through a fairy-tail-filter – whether through advertising or through Hollywood movies – we're always plodding along to the destination, and then we get there. So we plan for the wedding, not the marriage; we plan for the birth, not the baby ... and you get to the end of the wedding and it's like, well now what? Nothing's changed?

by Jill Stark

ای ستاره، ای ستارهء غریب
ما اگر ز خاطر خدا نرفته‌ایم
پس چرا به داد ما نمی‌رسد؟

ما صدای گریه‌مان
به آسمان رسید
از خدا چرا صدا نمی‌رسد؟
#فریدون_مشیری
@missing158

How do you account for the way failed dreams might push you elsewhere, make you search out other things?

Disfigured
by Amanda Leduc

It seems like a silly reason now. But sometimes it's the silly, small decisions that have the greatest power.

Disfigured
by Amanda Leduc

«یک جامعه‌ی طبقاتی فقط بر اساس وجود فقر و نادانی قابل دوام است، تا آگاه نشده‌اند عصیان نمی‌کنند و تا عصیان نکنند نمی‌توانند آگاه شوند.»

۱۹۸۴، جورج اورول - دریافت کتاب

If a desire for meat is part of "human nature," it must be remembered that it is also part of "human nature" to question the way we live, to think about justice, and to change our habits to reflect the development of our moral lives. This doesn't make us better or more evolved than other animals–we all have different abilities, and one of those is the power to consider these sorts of ethical matters.

Beasts of Burden
by Sunaura Taylor

But vegans are not opposed to death. We are opposed to the commodification and unnecessary killing of animals for human pleasure and benefit.

Beasts of Burden
by Sunaura Taylor

This is a common phenomenon: when animals can no longer earn their keep by working, their bodies must be put to work in another way–as meat.

Beasts of Burden
by Sunaura Taylor

I didn't fantasize, back then, about what the world might look like if it actually was fair, if there was no need for superheroes at all.

Disfigured
by Amanda Leduc

And in the world we've built, it's easier for us to imagine that only superheroes - or perhaps fairy godmothers – can bend the arc for us. Everything else just takes too long.

Disfigured
by Amanda Leduc

We're all for subverting stories until the subversion requires a change in the real world that involves work, at which point we fall back to our regular narratives and look to the one who come to rescue us.

Disfigured
by Amanda Leduc

I am where I am because I grew up a storyteller, and understood the ways that stories can move and shape us even before I understood exactly how to tell them.

Disfigured
by Amanda Leduc