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Tidbits: On wanting what you hate

Tidbits: On wanting what you hate

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Rachel Katz
Aug 12, 2022
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I am fascinated with the question of how we can want to participate in structures we dislike or disagree with. One of my writer friends observed recently, more people can now name the structures and forces we don’t like, like beauty standards, and yet still participate in them, still want to participate in them.

This hit home for me. One multiple dimens…

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