Teacy Holmes
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“You can mourn what she was not, but you cannot mourn what she was. All she ever tried to do was break you, and in many respects, she succeeded. You share her blood—who cares? She birthed you, but it does not mean she is your mother. You
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“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”
― Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
― Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl

“Those who benefit from the inequities of our society resist the stories of people whose suffering is in large part owed to the structures of our society. They do not want to have to change. We see this in a thousand forms of white fragility, male fragility, and transphobic and homophobic tantrums protesting the ground gained by trans and queer storytellers.”
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
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“The resistance to memoirs about trauma is in many respects a reiteration of the classic role of perpetrator: to deny, discredit, and dismiss victims in order to avoid being implicated or losing power. Anyone who writes the story of their individual trauma, and especially those of identities that have been historically oppressed and abused, is subject to the retraumatization by ongoing perpetrators: the patriarchal, white supremacist, colonizing nation(s) in which they must live and learn to heal.”
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

A place were readers can connect with Tennessee Authors. We will choose a book, written by a Tennessee Goodreads author who is a member of the group, ...more

Welcome to the Grishaverse chat! This is a wonderful place to talk about (and vent about) pretty much anything by Leigh Bardugo. You can write about i ...more

This book club is for queer women and their allies. We aim to give queer women of all backgrounds a space where they can discover, read, and discuss l ...more

To celebrate our love of reading books that people see fit to ban throughout the world. We abhor censorship and promote freedom of speech.

This is a group for authors to discuss their craft, as well as publishing and book marketing.
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