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Raise Your Voice - Traci Blackmon - Our Faith Our Vote

By Traci Blackmon — 2016

I raise my voice for equal rights. For equity in education. For health care for all. For marriage equality. I raise my voice because people like my grandmother, and my grandfather, and my aunts and uncles, fought for me to have the right to do so.

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Our Activism Is Too Focused on Performance to Acknowledge Allies Who Aren’t ‘Vocally’ Woke

We tend to “believe” in the woke-ness that is “performed” for us. “The more vocal you are, the more confident you appear. And because you appear more confident, you seem to have more influence on other people, who believe you’ll be great at practicing what you claim too,” she says.

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Devrupa Rakshit
2022
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