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When intentional communities reproduce the privilege they critique

Everyone in our commune is white and middle-class despite all our talk about diversity and inclusion and I'm realizing we've created exactly the kind of bubble we thought we were rejecting.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Alternative communities often replicate the same exclusions and inequalities they claim to transcend.

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