For starters, the experience of seeing my own name in print is still really, really dope. But that's not all.
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I was the first person to publicly denounce SlutWalk. It was me. And I've largely been erased from the short history of critique against it.
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Not that other woc didn't also publish and eventually tweet critiques about SlutWalk. But I remember mine was the first intervention.
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I know it sounds big headed of me. But I've also had a lifetime of being erased from the very ideas I helped to develop.
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But another reason is that, when I first published my SlutWalk critique,
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When shit definitively hit the fan over creepy-ass Hugo Schwyzer a lot of white women came around. And
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Sometimes things take time. They take years. Sometimes the person who didn't get, eventually does. And that's why I do the work I do.
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I'm also remembering that, just four years ago, I couldn't get my critique of SlutWalk published. My, how we've changed the field.
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@aurabogado Congratulations! I remember that piece well.#ToTheCurb!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@aurabogado congratulations!!!!


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