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For our movements to win, we must learn how not to let our grief

destroy us.

And it's a conversation article, you know, so it's basically a long transcript.

And there's discussion about how grief shows up in our lived experience, particularly in a political movement type

experience, whether in real life or virtually on social media, places like that. And at one point,

it describes that because so often what we are fighting against, we are actually powerless to inflict damage upon, you know,

like the state.

We may be angry or traumatized by state violence, and we are unable to inflict, you know,

anything on the state.

Therefore, we will tend to target anyone who will be receptive to our rage and anger so we can feel that we've made a dent in the universe

somehow. And it, you know, that is described as a thing people do, definitely not a good thing.

And so one person is talking about how, quote, Hughie Newton gave a speech in 1970 addressing

the women's liberation and gay liberation networks.

And they say, I think about that speech nearly every day. In it, he says, quote,

friends are allowed to make mistakes. The enemy is not allowed to make mistakes because his whole

existence is a mistake, and we suffer from it. But the Women's liberation front and gay liberation front are our friends.

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