Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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structure of goodness that is designed to be unattainable

There is a terrible structure of goodness in the United States that is designed to be unattainable for most non-white Americans, most poor Americans, most immigrants, most queer, most disabled bodies. We are taught early to be good, to behave, to be quiet, to not take up space, to be invisible. May…

—p.261 Freeman's: California Bodies Built for Game (237) missing author
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gorse

It was the west, its lassitude and gorse

—p.216 Monterey (215) missing author
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trellis

He had trellis work

—p.141 Susto (129) missing author
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the world was ours for the taking

[...] We girls - not one indigenous student among us - received a standing ovation as we gathered at the front of the stage in our costumes, linked arms, and took a grand, ecstatic bow. We were being raised to understand that the world was ours for the taking, because that had long been true, even …

—p.123 The California PAgeant (103) missing author
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trammeled

a beautiful, untrammeled place

—p.107 The California PAgeant (103) missing author
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