Erin Wunker Quotes

#1. We learn quickly that, like a spectre, the possibility of rape is everywhere at once. We are taught that, like a spectre, rape is almost impossible to pin down.

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#2. Happiness as restricted access. Happiness as a country club, a resort, an old boys club for certain boys only. Happiness as body shame, as racism, as transphobia, as misogyny. These are some joys that need killing.

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#3. Smugness in ones own self-knowledge is often a signal that you don't know as much as you think you do.

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#4. Perhaps feminist is a bit like walking purposefully through a crowd.

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#5. The feminist killjoy takes pleasure in the work of interrupting the patriarchal norms that pass as joy.
Burn it down! She gleefully lights the match.

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#6. So one of my responsibilities, as a white, cis-gendered woman, is to learn how to be a traitor to the 'joys' of patriarchal culture that I experience, however unconsciously.

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#7. Not all friendships are meant to last, I suppose. Not ever with books

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