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Too many people on the left are using their identities and past trauma to justify ignoring the…

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Briana L. Urena-Ravelo

1 min readAug 8, 2017

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All of this! Meanwhile Black women and femmes with those identities are erased. It is a game we don’t stand a chance at.

Briana L. Urena-Ravelo

Written by Briana L. Urena-Ravelo

Writer. Community organizer. Errant punk. Ne’er do well. Fire starter. Email: Dominicanamalisima@gmail.com

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