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I pick back up where I left off in Gregoire's She Deserves Better.
I staggered back over to She Deserves Better yesterday afternoon as a break from polishing up my draft on Josh Butler’s Beautiful Union. The remaining chapters are called “She Deserves to Know About Her Body,” “She Deserves to Understand Consent,” “She Deserves to Exist as a Person, Not a Threat,” and “She Deserves Permission to Be Big.” I made it partly through “She Deserves to Know About Her Body” and got stuck right away on a line that isn’t wrong, necessarily, but is the sort of slogan that makes me shudder because it reduces a concept that is quite complex to a simplistic and sometimes not true idea. Here’s the line:
What we can’t name causes shame.
It’s embedded in this longer paragraph:
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