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Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.


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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.



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The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.



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[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.



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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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