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This is where depression regularly ends in suicide and there is no place to run for women, girls, transgendered and gender non-conforming people

— Pregs Govender

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We can reclaim ourselves by recognising that love is intrinsic to our being. From it we can invoke the courage to dance with our fear

That’s how Power Systems work. They set up divisions between us. One of the most powerful things is reclaiming that connection

There is wisdom in the everyday beauty of fragile complex beings grappling with contradiction

It’s really people who exploit the earth and humanity with fairly little consequence and then set themselves up as the people with the solution or who will fund the solutions

Share [your] personal intergenerational stories of [your] forebears who had defied race, culture, gender and power

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