Category: Activism
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the catalyst
We have been asked no, told to isolate with nothing to do but to confront ourselves. So used to turning outwards because it is our nature to Connect to Create to Build to Move But we forget it is also our nature to Reflect to Contemplate to Grow to Care The vagary…
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Ripples (the effects of naming him)
It feels weird to have waited so long. To say it, in the first place. And then, to have not said anything since. I want to divulge everything and also nothing. Mostly I just want to write about something else. If you’re curious though… it was worth it. So fucking worth it. It rippled inward…
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I’m done hiding your shame for you, Cole Gardner #namethem
Thank you to Dr. Blasey Ford and all the women who have had the courage to stand up and name the men who attacked them, even when knowing that their renewed trauma will likely not stop these men from continuing to take what they don’t deserve. We have to keep talking. We have to NAME…
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a brief history of hush-hush rape
“Quickly and lightly he lifted her down to the gallery and slid the door closed. Her surprise pleased him enormously. Trembling, she called for help. ‘It will do you no good. I am always allowed my way. Just be quiet, if you will please.” -The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (early 11th century, Japan)…
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The bigger asshole: god or science?
We bear not only the “sins” but also the fruits – the cumulative knowledge, the tools, the health, the appearance, the environment, the beliefs – of our ancestors; not because some god ordained it, but because we carry them with us. We are them. And not just metaphorically or philosophically. But physically, genetically, they are…
Trynia Kaufman 