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“For femmes, that evolving feminist thought reacquainted us with something we kind of knew already: men and women might mistake us for “just girls”… — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
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“I knew I lived in a country founded on the murder of the body and the spirit of others. Native American nations were decimated… — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
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