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When community organizing requires you to repeatedly share personal pain

My organizing group keeps asking me to share my story about losing my home but I'm tired of performing my trauma for people who get to go home to their stable housing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Activist spaces can inadvertently exploit personal suffering as political currency.

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