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Activism as Celebration, not Victimhood – Areo
“Appeals for sympathy, resources or inclusion based on victimhood status may be popular on Twitter, the thing is, in the end it’s up to us to create pockets of the kind of world we want to live in. Nobody is going to give it to us or do it for us,” writes Ian Lawrence-Tourinho for Areo in association with Queer Majority.
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