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"We have to be willing to embrace the full autonomy of people who are less privileged and understand that equity means making access to opportunity easier, not deciding what opportunities they deserve."
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Mikki KendallThe problem has never been the ways that victims don’t tell, so much a — Mikki Kendall
"The problem has never been the ways that victims don’t tell, so much as it has been that some victims aren’t seen as valuable enough to protect."
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Mikki Kendall
Mikki Kendall
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Mikki Kendall is an author, activist, and cultural critic. Her work often focuses on current events, media representation, the politics of food, and the history of the feminist movement. Penguin Random House published her graphic novel Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists in 2019, while her political nonfiction book Hood Feminism was released in early 2020.
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"No woman has to be respectable to be valuable."
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"Sometimes being a good ally is about opening the door for someone instead of insisting that your voice is the only one that matters."
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"For women of color, the expectation that we prioritize gender over race, that we treat the patriarchy as something that gives all men the same power, leaves many of us feeling isolated."
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"Learning to defend myself, to be willing to take the risk of being a bad girl, was a process with a steep learning curve. But like with so many other things, I learned how to stand up even when other people were certain I should be content to sit down. Being good at being bad has been scary, fun, rewarding, and ultimately probably the only path that I was ever meant to walk."
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"There is no shame in asking for help; it takes strength to admit you need it."
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