Quote Calendar Day # 24

"When you disrupt the existing conditions and refuse to accept anything less than what you know you are worth, you start making those who oppress you so uncomfortable that they will try anything to discredit you."

- Malebo Sephodi (2017)

#Quotemas #Black #AntiOppressive #AntiFascism #AntiFascism #Authenticity #Disrupt #DisturbTheComfortable #ComfortTheDisturbed #Feminist

Quote Calendar Day # 23

"Gender identity belongs to the person who lives it, but one cannot deny that observers will make assumptions about us based on their understanding or comprehension of gender signals."

- Jamison Green (2004)

#Quotemas #Gender #GenderAffirmation #Performativity #Trans

Quote Calendar Day # 21

"Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives."

- Bessel van der Kolk (2014)

#Quotemas #Counselling #MentalHealth #Safety #Trauma #Therapy #TraumaInformed

Quote Calendar Day # Bonus

"Hello Dan, it's Joe here
I hope you're keeping well
It's the 21st of December
And now they're ringing the last bells
If I get good behaviour
I'll be out of here by July
Won't you kiss my kids on Christmas Day?
Please don't let 'em cry for me."

- Paul Kelly (1996)

#Quotemas #GravyDay #Abolitionism #EndTheCarceralState #RehabilitationNotIncarceration

Quote Calendar Day # 21

"Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself."

- Julia Cameron (2011)

#Quotemas #Procrastination #SelfCare #SelfCompassion #Psychology #Counselling

Quote Calendar Day # 20

"The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community."

- Susan Sontag

#Quotemas #AntiOppressive #AntiFascism #AntiRascist #Resist #IdealJustice #Community #Change #SocialJustice

Quote Calendar Day # 18

"In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects"

- Gabor Maté (2007)

#Quotemas #Addiction #Trauma #Psychology #Therapy #Counselling

Quote Calendar 📆

"A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom..."

- Simone de Beauvoir (1947)

#Quotemas #Freedom #AntiOppressive #AntiFascism #HumanRights

Quote Calendar Day # 17

"Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label."

- Irvin D. Yalom (1996)

#Quotemas #Counselling #Therapy #AntiOppressive #ExistentialPsychotherapy #Psychology #Compassion #MentalHealth

Quote Calendar Day # 16

"Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history."

- Alice Miller (born Alicija Englard) (1979)

#Quotemas #CriticalThinking #AntiOppressive #AntiRascist #AntiFascism

Quote Calendar Day # 15

"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

- Karl Popper (1945)

#Quotemas #ParadoxOfTolerance #AntiOppressive #AntiRascist #AntiFascism #Tolerance #Philosophy

Quote Calendar Day # 14

"It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable."

- Ashly Lorenzana

#Quotemas #Discourse #Debate #Belief

Quote Calendar Day # 13

"My father always used to say, 'Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.' Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right."

- Desmond Tutu

#Quotemas #Debate #Rhetoric #TyrannyOfTheMajority #Oppression #AntiOppressive #AntiRascist

Quote Calendar Day # 12

"All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do nothing. We say nothing. We let other people fight their own battles. We remain silent because silence is easier. Qui tacet consentire videtur is Latin for 'Silence gives consent.' When we say nothing, when we do nothing, we are consenting to these trespasses against us."

- Roxane Gay (2014)

#Quotemas #Injustice #AntiOppressive #Solidarity #IWillNotBeSilent #Feminism