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sarah xerta

The Brick Wall: The Intersection of Patriarchy, Privilege, Anger, and Language ➔

“Every time I speak up about misogyny in the lit world, I am met with resistance, as if it’s merely a matter of personal opinion that violence against women is a global epidemic, as if it’s merely a matter of personal opinion that one in four women will experience sexual violence in her lifetime, that one in five women will experience rape, that I can’t think of a single non-male person in my life who hasn’t been subjected to male violence in one way or another.”
Mar. 15 2015
#Sarah Xerta #VIDA #misogyny #patriarchy #feminism #rape #abuse
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