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Be gay, do crimes.

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be gay, do crimes. via brynnestegramm

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Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change.

Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”

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“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.” –Audre Lorde

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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. - Audre Lorde

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“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” —Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

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“There are times when justice demands that we transcend the law.”

“When they go low, we go high, and I went as high as I could...We do not put children in cages. Period.” - Therese Patricia Okoumou speaks out after scaling the base of the Statue of Liberty on July 4th in protest of US immigration policy.

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CW: gun violence

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“All of us know what it feels like to be Harry Potter now.” -Emma Gonzalez

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We’ve been here before.

“These are two women who deserved more than they were given. I believe Anita Hill, and I believe Christine Blasey Ford.”

I remember my dad tuning in the car radio to listen to the Anita Hill hearings when I was a little kid. I had no idea what was going on.

We need to learn about what Professor Hill did, and how those in power responded, to full appreciate the meaning of what’s happening today to Dr. Ford.

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Show up. Speak your truth. Rage in solidarity. Rage in public. Shame can only survive in silence, in the dark, alone.

✨Bring the light. ✨

1000+ women, survivors, and allies have gathered in the Hart Senate Building.

Every hallway. Every floor. We will not be silenced. We won’t forget. November is coming.

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“I’m probably the angriest that I’ve ever been,but I’m also having a blast.” — Aminatou Sow

This podcast, these women, their work, their rage, inspired me to start How to Rage.

Let’s learn our history, embrace our rage, and fight for our joy and our justice. 🔥