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Power Politics and the Race/Gender Card – A Contemporary Reflection

If we want to build meaningful alternatives, we must deal with difficult issues head-on. Sweeping things under the carpet – especially in radical spaces – always comes at a cost.

One of the more complex, and often misused, areas is around identity politics, particularly the playing of the race/gender card in ways that obscure rather than clarify the real issues at stake.

Let’s be clear: systemic racism and sexism are real. We all live with the deep, painful legacies of colonialism, […]

Dealing with #mainstreaming folks can be exhausting — not because of bad intent, but because of the incompetence, paranoia, and trauma baked in by 40 years of head-down devotion to a #deathcult system.

We need better social paths to mediate this mess.Compassion, yes — but also clarity, boundaries, and collective care.
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