“Intimacy requires a slow, cumulative build of safety between people who agree to a relationship, an ongoing connection of care and concern. The performance of pain is essentially a form of bonding over trauma, and people can get addicted to… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself. — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive. — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more PTSD, has… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“There is a name for the tsunami wave of extermination: the Holocene extinction event. There's no asteroid this time, only human behavior, behavior that… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“The necessity of political struggle especially means confronting and contradicting those on the left who say that resistance is futile. Such people have no… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“There is no place left for the buffalo to roam. There’s only corn, wheat, and soy. About the only animals that escaped the biotic… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“Life is literally a process of one creature eating another, whether it’s bacteria breaking down plants or animals, plants strangling each other, animals going… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society. He believed… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“Masculinity is simply a conglomeration of the personality traits necessary for the patriarchal soldier-rapist: physically strong, emotionally cauterized, rational, domineering, cruel. All of this… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to quote Catharine… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
