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Beautiful, sad, wrenching, honest set of essays. Ward pulls in some incredible authors (Claudia Rankine! Honoree Fanonne Jeffers! Edwidge Danticat!). A while ago, I'd started to think that "liberal" was insufficient to describe my beliefs, and I replaced it with "progressive," which seemed a closer match. Some of these essays, especially Rankine's and Older's, challenged me and made me think that I really should be pushing myself and my actions and beliefs towards "radical" ("You can't tiptoe to
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