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Feb 2025
38m 16s

Ismatu Gwendolyn: Class Traitor

Ismatu Gwendolyn
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In which Ismatu Gwendolyn, young revolutionary with a pen in hand, seeks to stake their power with and for The People, rather than utilizing the trust of their masses as a site of endless extraction.

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Link to video: https://youtu.be/jaEMTluGj5E

Show Notes:

Twenty Enemies by James Forman

twenty enemies james forman.pdf

you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it's making you easier to oppress):

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