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I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World QUOTES

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World QUOTES

1 " Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dual reality that a great many perpetrators are themselves survivors. "

― Kai Cheng Thom , I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

2 " When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier. "

― Kai Cheng Thom , I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

3 " When you're a child trapped in a situation of physical or psychological deprivation, you learn shame as an efficient, elegant mechanism of survival: shame simultaneously shields you from the reality that danger is our of your control (since the problem is not that you're unloved and deprived; it's that you're Bad) and prevents you from doing or saying anything challenging that might provoke a threat. "

― Kai Cheng Thom , I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

4 " Safety is, I believe, an inherently classed, raced, and gendered experience that frequently runs the risk of being used for regressive ends—ironically, for restricting the freedoms of the vulnerable, those who are never really safe. Often, we see the call for safety actually reinforce the power of oppressive institutions, like the police and the prison system, in our lives. When we choose safety over liberation, our movements fail. "

― Kai Cheng Thom , I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

5 " When you’re a child trapped in a situation of physical or psychological deprivation, you learn shame as an efficient, elegant mechanism of survival: shame simultaneously shields you from the reality that danger is out of your control (since the problem is not that you’re unloved and deprived; it’s that you’re Bad) and prevents you from doing or saying anything challenging that might provoke a threat. "

― Kai Cheng Thom , I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World