[Content Note: Violence against women; white supremacy.]
Lauren Chief Elk: "There is No 'We': V-Day, Indigenous Women and the Myth of Shared Gender Oppression."
This is a really important piece for a whole lot of reasons, primary among them the idea that tasking the state with anti-violence solutions is fundamentally incompatible with anti-violence when the state itself is committing and/or abetting violence in marginalized communities.
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[H/T to Amanda.]
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