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“In the expansive nervous system of this word, white supremacy, patriarchy, and extractivism are faulty codes, the misfiring signals which diconnect me from what is, in fact, happening to me; they construct peripheries and thereby make ancient pain seem brand-new.”

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Book:The Nerves and Their Endings
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