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What’s haunting is that the women I met with today told me in no uncertain terms that they would experience retribution for telling us what they shared.
They all began sobbing - out of fear of being punished, out of sickness, out of desperation, lack of sleep, trauma, despair.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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It is utterly embarrassing that “pay people enough to live” is a stance that’s even up for debate.

I will not yield because it was a terribly disrespectful comment, and I will not yield to disrespectful men.

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Forced pregnancy is a crime against humanity.

People really need to ask themselves why their communities chose to erect statues to slaveholders instead of abolitionists.

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