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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

— Pregs Govender

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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

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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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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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