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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.


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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.



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Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.



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