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LWolf

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7. We all have multiple identities.

Reply to forjusticethunders (Reply #5)

Thu Aug 4, 2016, 02:12 PM

Aug 2016

Race, ethicity, sexual orientation, gender, class, belief system, etc.; the are all interconnected and it simply doesn't work, in my experience, to try to segregate them.

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I wrote a response the other day. forjusticethunders Jul 2016 #5

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