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WE MUST HUMANIZE OURSELVES & OUR SUBJECTS

Updated: Dec 12, 2019

Humans are humans—not stereotypes or archetypes or symbols or tools or fuel or set pieces or cargo or playthings or prizes or numbers or objects for our work. We will allow humans to speak for themselves, as individuals. We will work to center the power of those whose narrative agency dominant histories have sought to erase. In a world like ours and a time like this, this seemingly simple act of rehumanizing is revolutionary.

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