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When activist groups reproduce the power dynamics they oppose

Our activist group talks constantly about intersectionality but the people who get heard in meetings and make decisions are still the same white educated voices, and when others point this out, we have 'process conversations' that change nothing.

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What we've seen

A group committed to equity is unconsciously perpetuating the very exclusion patterns they claim to resist.

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