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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2019-06-27

"For those relegated to nonbeing and condemned to invisibility, to even appear is a violent act - because it is violent to the structures of the world and because it will inevitably be treated as such" -- George Ciccariello-Maher ( Wikipedia), Decolonizing Dialectics (2017, Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-82237-370-4. OCLC 940521740)

[The original context of this passage is Blackness in America. I think the statement has broader applicability, but given how policing continues to operate, that context seems important to preserve.]

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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 11:42pm on 2019-06-27
Well said both in the specific and the broader application. I definitely see similarities in the application of the attitude "how dare you exist, I'm going to violently fix that problem" to Black people, women outside very narrow norms, and transgender people, among other groups. And all the more so for those who belong to more than one of these groups.
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