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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

eroticism requires separateness

My belief, reinforced by twenty years of practice, is that in the course of establishing security, many couples confuse love with merging. This mix-up is a bad omen for sex. To sustain an élan toward the other, there must be a synapse to cross. Eroticism requires separateness. In other words, eroti…

—p.xv Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic Introduction (xiii) by Esther Perel
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5 months, 1 week ago

the space between bodies that are marching

I’ve come to think of solidarity, this mixture of hope and care, as a physical force or maybe a force field, and as such it invisibly acts on all things that are passing through it at all times. It’s the space between bodies that are marching or singing or striking or otherwise taking action togeth…

—p.261 On the Line: Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union After (255) by Daisy Pitkin
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5 months, 1 week ago

industrial laundry workers made $10.13 an hour

In 2020, industrial laundry workers made $10.13 an hour on average, while the CEO of the largest laundry corporation in the United States made $9,778,369. This is a typical disparity in today’s economy, in which more is owned by fewer people than at any point in US history, and in which unions have…

—p.258 After (255) by Daisy Pitkin
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the Jewish Home for the Aged in Los Angeles

That same March, in 2011, one of Clara Lemlich Shavelson’s daughters was in New York, attending a commemoration of the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire and a ceremony in which thirty women were receiving awards named after her mother. At these events, she kept getting approached by people offering …

—p.253 Fires (234) by Daisy Pitkin
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the pink sheet

Moreover, she was willing to talk about the method as a method. You and Alma clearly have a strong bond, she said. She trusts you. Which, she went on to explain, is the only purpose of the questionnaire, or “pink sheet,” as HERE’s system of gaining these personal stories from workers and then recor…

—p.226 Las Polillas (208) by Daisy Pitkin