Activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham: How Did We Get Here?
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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I Got Invalidated at a Pool Party With My Friends
This is part of how oppression manifests itself. How did it make you feel at age ten when your friends are saying, i don't know what the big deal is? Other micro invalidations include seeing someone who looks foreign to you and asking them where they are from or hearing some one with an accent and asking them how they learn to speak english. So well, it is these things that invalidate your personhood and the things that matter to you, and minimizes and diminishes them. These were not new feelings. What i will say was a formative, a morform feeling. It was like we said we wanted black santa claus's. That was my first experience,.
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