Mía Miranda 9/9/21 Mía Miranda 9/9/21

The Shape of a Bruise

“For everyone who told themselves—with eyes screwed tight, sweat coated down your neck— that everything was okay, when it wasn’t. For everyone who didn’t realize they were hurt for days, months, years and years later. Even when the bruises fade, the body remembers. Our bodies remember. “

Amanda Bennett 8/5/21 Amanda Bennett 8/5/21

Change is the Vehicle, Freedom is the Destination

“The goal of the system we’re creating at define&empower is to develop a community of organizations that are committed to doing the work necessary for a sustainable, inclusive, and ethical future.”

C.P.M. 8/4/21 C.P.M. 8/4/21

No, You Cannot Change McKinsey from the Inside

“Management consulting is never going to come out in favor of workers’ rights. It is the absence of workers’ rights —and the costs it saves —on which management consulting has built its reputation as a moneymaker.”

C.P.M. 7/28/21 C.P.M. 7/28/21

Never Have I Ever...been gaslit by Netflix

The show’s writers are obsessed with the politics of teenage intimacy, nominally because that’s what the teenagers they’re writing for want to see. After watching it, the target audience seems not to be not teenagers who are obsessed with intimacy and sex, but rather teenagers that have never had sex, been intimate with someone, gone to a high school, or lived in America.

C.P.M. 7/21/21 C.P.M. 7/21/21

A Queer System

“We should be providing resources for young people, queer or not, to help them navigate sex, trauma, and relationships in a variety of contexts while simultaneously shielding them from all the violence we can.”

Tess Dimenna 7/19/21 Tess Dimenna 7/19/21

Misogynoir: Reflecting on Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Young Black girls are still demonized for being sexual, for being asexual, for being masculine, for being feminine, for being a mother, for not being a mother. The Black woman is demonized for anything she does.