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Oct 2023
57m 21s

When We Hold Ourselves Apart (Chloé Coop...

Elise Loehnen
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“That's just like the human struggle, is how is it that our interiority and the way that we're perceived externally, how do we live with that? How does it act? Like, how do those things influence each other? Like, that's maybe the human problem. And so academia puts another layer on that, disability puts another layer on that, being an artist puts another la ... Show More
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