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Reading Marilyn Frye’s The Politics of Reality is an exercise in “this is 50 years old whyyy does it feel so applicable to today:” this time in the essay grappling with whiteness and drawing connections to patriarchal desires to “return” (white) women to their “rightful” place as breeding stock
Mar 18, 2025, 11:29 PM
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