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Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life

Radicals in Conversation

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The Power of Prefiguration in Relationships

I'm always a proponent of breaking up although you know as someone who's had my own breakups it's not like an easy place to be right. You can have these ideas of failure but there's also this way of knowing that like the ending of things actually tends to be good in some way despite like the mourning that is involved. I've tried to use this in my own interpersonal relationships to be like I know that I'm okay right if I'm going to committed say coupling or even just a friendship and  that knowledge can help me engage in the interactions in the conflicts that I have when in those relationships so that I don't feel like everything is on the line constantly Right.

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