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

— 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

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

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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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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