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Jokiness allows a constant trivializing: as if by joking someone is suspending judgment on what is being said. She didn’t mean anything by it; lighten up. A killjoy knows from experience: when people keep making light of something, something heavy is going on

— Sara Ahmed An Affinity of Hammers (2016)

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To point out harassment is to be viewed as the harasser; to point out oppression is to be viewed as oppressive.

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The exposure of violence is perceived by the privileged as the origin of violence.

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Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.

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