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“When we police a woman's affect, when we privilege it or equate it with her actions, with what she actually does, we're engaging in our most pervasive and yet our most quiet form of sexism, our most quiet form of everyday violence.”

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Book:Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land

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