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Nov 2023
38m 30s

There Is No Revolution without Madness.

Ismatu Gwendolyn
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The first essay of the Revolutionary Healers series. WHAT USE is "measured rationality" when to be Reasonable means to dying quietly, all the time? Notes from the text, “How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind.” Full transcript, with sources, at ismatu.substack.com.



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