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I want to be free.
- I don’t want to be liked
- I don’t want to be “equal”
- Fuck civility
- Fuck unity
- Fuck the patriarchy
#2020
I want to be free
- I’m not doing those 2009/2019 things
- I don’t care about where I was
- I care about where I am
- I care about where I want to go
- Fuck the patriarchy
#2020
I want to be free
- Defy
- Disobey
- Disrupt
- Fuck the patriarchy
That’s my #2020 Vision
What is your #2020 vision for freedom?
#fuckthepatriarchy #defydisobeydisrupt
I want to be free - that is much more powerful than being equal to men. Men are not my yardstick. If men themselves are not free of the ravages of racism, capitalism and other forms of oppression, it is not enough to say I want to be equal to them. google.com/amp/s/www.nyti… #2020
As long as patriarchy remains unchallenged, men will continue to be the default and the standard against which everything is measured. Being powerful must mean more than doing what men do or being what men can be. I do not want what men have. I want much more. I want to be free.
To be free, I must defy, disobey and disrupt.
#2020
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“posturing feminist firebrand.”

I especially relish garbage publication PJ media’s claim that my beating the fuck out of a man who sexually assaulted me in a #Montreal club was “apocryphal.” His face and my knuckles would disagree. #IBeatMyAssulter

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