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How do you make someone listen when they don’t want to? How do you fix the reality and existence of casual, everyday racism when the white perpetrators refuse to believe/acknowledge they perpetuate discrimination because they’re offended at being labeled a “racist”?

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A shimmer of gold, beset by a white or black background, is far too obvious: its rarity is mocked.

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Coming out can be freeing and powerful. I am forever changed for coming out to myself, to my friends and family and to my communities. But I had to do it in a way that felt safe for me.

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Oberlin College. This small college in Ohio has a student body that is 94.6 percent hipster (provided you exclude the conservatory). — The Hipster Handbook.

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Remember the time that high school was cancelled because of SARS and it was just So. Much. Drama. The girl who sat next to you in IB History asked if she could get her sanitary-mask in paisley. You said “probably.”