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Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one?
There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.
On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.
My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.
I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.