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We Can Do Hard Things
Alok Vaid-Menon, the author and public speaker, discussed the ways their life is perceived as marked by violence and aggression. They want to remind people that the lives they carve out are not an object but actually quite awesome.
I want to remind people that the everyday lives that people like me are carving on this earth are not object they're actually pretty awesome
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Alok Vaid-Menon, the author and public speaker, discussed the ways their life is perceived as marked by violence and aggression. They want to remind people that the lives they carve out are not an object but actually quite awesome.
I want to remind people that the everyday lives that people like me are carving on this earth are not object they're actually pretty awesome
What I mean is people who are choreographing the rhythm of their life to the cadence of love whose metronome is beauty not normativity people who color outside the lines because they don't exist people who often get asked questions to try to root them back into the status quo like well are you really going to be able to make a job out of that or why are you so dressed up those are all modes of policing people back into what we think it means to be stable