Trust your own eyes.

“A system that makes people work like zombies to produce useless, destructive, or self-destructive things has outlived its usefulness.”

“Psychological experiences require patience while so much in the world demands urgency.”

Between 1978 and 1980, Audre Lorde wrote about her experience with breast cancer and mastectomy, connecting her trials and treatment to her own work and to the collective effort of liberation for all women.

From phenomena to pathology.

Hannah Proctor visits the concept of burnout as the experience of political defeat—the disappointment, despair, and grief that emerges when one becomes aware that the political project they have committed themselves to may not succeed.

bell hooks approaches notions of self-care among communities of Black women, locating it within the work of grief, testimony, and reconciliation.

The tyranny of government is the tyranny of the workplace is the tyranny of the home.

In these three short novels, Le Guin takes us to the Western Shore, where people of magic and people of war and people of books all try to make their lives together.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

This collection of interlocking stories tells of the people who live in a small town on the Oregon coast.

“What is meant by ‘reality’?” asks Virginia Woolf.

In the summer of 1934, Leonard and Virginia Woolf adopted a marmoset named Mitz.

“Are not force and possessiveness very closely connected with war?”

This pair of essays from Virginia Woolf attends to women’s exclusion from educational institutions and economic independence on two fronts.

A politics of refusal must be more than a closed door.

“Shaping, handling, and doing something with the psychic stuff.”

Knowledge that you can feel in your bones.

In 1913, a young Pole arrives at a health resort in the Silesian mountains, a place known to be free of consumption due to the still, damp air.

“We should dissociate ‘work’ from the Herculean labor and return the idea of work to the example of the dream.”

“When we wrong the dream, we wrong the soul.”

To heal a wound is to account for the wounding.

To believe in supremacy is to refuse to see what’s right in front of you, over and over and over again.

Herman’s canonical work focuses on the necessity of understanding trauma within a social and political context.

The purpose of haste is to prevent any semblance of rest.

Competitors instead of comrades.

A person dies, but capital is forever.

An ancient secret order finds itself up against its most powerful foe: the Moon Goddess has returned.

Do not let anyone take your regret from you!

“Heartbreak is the heart of all revolutionary consciousness.”