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Finished last week for #SheSaid Elizabeth Packard was an amazing woman who I knew very little about until this book. She did so much to fight for her own rights but even more to fight for the rights of the voiceless—women & those with mental health issues, or really rather, those who were judged to be insane but were not & typically forced into asylums by husbands or male family members to silence ⬇️

A powerful listening experience. It's a sad, horrific, true story of the massive consequences of health inequality, told with humanity and grace. I understand now why this became his cause, and there's hope in the fact that so much has and still can be done to help. (Though as an American, it's hard not to fear we've taken such a wrong turn, we soon won't even be able to help ourselves.)

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I started this one a few years ago & then life got busy & I put it aside. I‘m happy that I finally went back to finish it. I had this cathartic moment as I was finishing that the topics & subjects covered in this book are really difficult things to face & come to terms with. Not making excuses for people because they just need to unlearn that sh—. But I can also see why people can‘t unlearn it. US history is so entwined with racism that most don‘t

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George Floyd was murdered in fairly recent history, but this book is so well researched that it takes the reader all the way back to his family roots during times of slavery and sharecropping. I am so glad I read it. I came out of the experience with a better understanding of systemic racism and the conviction that we can never ever give up the fight for justice. George Floyd!

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I love George Takei for his acting, his activism, and his humor. They Called Us Enemy is a graphic memoir about Takei's childhood spent incarcerated in an interment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. It was a heartbreaking story, but also one of family perseverance. We are repeating our mistakes again. We put innocent people in camps because of racism, and now we're doing it again. When is enough enough? #RealHistory @Librarybelle