I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story. - J. M. Coetzee

If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism

We had been stopped by the cops before. There was a routine to it all: we knew that if you carefully played along you’d eventually be released, if not with your dignity, then at least with your skin. But that night we sensed an urgency we hadn’t experienced before. With the blinding headlights upon me, I couldn’t process the commands.

There is no home left for universal souls, except perhaps in Antarctica or on the high seas