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How Gatekeeping Becomes the Wound We Inflict on Ourselves. There exists a particular kind of cruelty that wears the face of care. It speaks in careful tones about being thoughtful and deliberate, about protecting those it is actually abandoning. It sounds nothing like oppression.
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The Cruelest Cut: How We Become Enforcers of Our Own Oppression In my previous essays, I traced the architecture of our oppression: how history shows us casting off boots only to face new ones, how our oppressors project their fragility onto us, how this projection manifests across every arena of
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In my previous essay,"The Mirror of Offense," I explored how accusations of fragility reveal more about the accuser than the accused, how the mirror of offense reflects back the brittleness of those who cannot bear to share a world where their comfort isn't centered. That
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On Fragility, Projection, and the Demand for Dignity There exists a peculiar inversion in our discourse, a sleight of hand so deft that even those performing it seem unaware of the trick. "Why are you so easily offended?" they demand, their faces flushed with indignation, their keyboards hammering
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On Bodies and Power It does seem to be an odd fixation, doesn't it? I do not understand why this has to be the defining feature of a person, wherein all other attributes become secondary, or so it seems when in discussion or debate. How curious that these