“I looked at the woman crying over the doll and felt something else. I was sick of people acting against their own interests. Mooing about how to refinance the slaughterhouse. Putting skylights in the killing pen and pretending the bolt… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
“Britta wanted to try to turn a guard. Tamara thought it was idiotic. “What are you going to do? Buy him beer and tell him about Kropotkin?” I envisioned the conversation: Vanguard: Wage Slave, are you aware that you are but a wire nail in the toolbox of capitalism? Wage Slave: I thought I was a chisel. Vanguard: No, the… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share
I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
There doesn't seem to be a lot of stance from the outside of that world to disagree. — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
“Siddhartha wants liberation, Dante wants Beatrice, Frodo wants to get to Mount Doom—we all want something. Quest is elemental to the human experience. All road narratives are to some extent built on quest. If you’re a woman, though, this fundamental possibility of quest is denied. You can’t go anywhere if you can’t step out onto a road… …(T)here is no… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share
As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism. — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share
“Oh, you must be part of the underground no one’s ever heard about.” “I don’t belong to any group outside of my friends.” “That’s a real bridge builder.” But it was a pretty hollow response. I wasn’t part of any group either, and not just because my wiring was shot and I cried all the time, but because I had… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share
Some things are so sad that they have no name. I have tried to name them and I can't. — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
