“‘If I start hating prostitutes where am I going to stop?…All around us there are all kinds of people prostituting their souls and their principles for money. I know people in this city who prostitute our faith for the sake of expediency. I watch it going on all around and wonder how corrupt our faith …
“I truly believe there is value in learning about blindness for everyone, because making our world more accessible benefits all its citizens, not just the few for whom it is critical,” (Rowell 11). Blind author Maud Rowell challenges readers to rethink blindness and disability, educating readers on blind explorers, artists, scientists, and many more who have …
“Yeah. In a world that wants me to hate myself, teaches me to hate myself, expects me to hate myself, learning to love myself instead can be an entire revolution,” (Callender 310). Lark Winters is an aspiring author, but until publication of their uncompleted manuscript Birdie Takes Flight happens, Lark must post on their social media accounts to …
“‘You have no idea what it means to be a Southern woman…It means fixing messes that the men make. It means running the Underground Railroad right under a husband’s nose, and it means rebuilding the South after fathers and husbands and brothers started the war with their stubborn pride. The women were the ones that …
“It’s hard…I’m forty-four and I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up,” (Nugent 149). Sally Diamond doesn’t understand why everyone is acting like she did something wrong. Her father told her to put him out with the trash when he died, and that’s exactly what she’s did. But now the media …
“Memories are time travel, and so are regrets, hopes, and daydreams. When we die, the people we love carry us forward into it,” (Smale 295). Cassandra Penelope Dankworth knows what she likes (wearing colour-coordinated jumpsuits during the weekday, her boyfriend Will) and dislikes (her job, change). Cassandra enjoys her predictable life until one day everything goes …
“Queer life experience is different; queer cultural experience is different. Why not reframe stories using existing tropes rather than cookie-cutter it instead? That’s also what ‘queering’ means: to disrupt, reframe, challenge and question how it’s always been done,” (Garside 21). I always find the popularity of Schitt’s Creek a source of pride and humour on my end. As …
“You can burn a book or a library, but to really destroy a story you have to destroy the language and its people. Or write another one,” (Barwin). After an unfortunate incident in his youth that left Motl ball-less, he has decided to go on a quest to find them and, hopefully, procreate. Except that …
“Love…is potent and powerful — it gives pleasure, meaning. But it also dominates, weakens, is a beast greedy and selfish, requiring constant sacrifice. To love is to cede our own power, an act of surrender we cannot guarantee will be returned,” (Keetch 203). Morgan of Cornwall lives a happy life with her mother, father, and …
“She’s seen the Earth from above. She’s traveling through an undiscovered universe, on her way to a place no human has touched. And when they arrive, she will create a new world, a good world,” (Willis 312). Amber Kivinen is going to Mars. Maybe. If she wins the hit new reality TV show MarsNow she’ll …
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