What civilization has done to women’s bodies is no different than what it’s done to the earth, to children, to the sick, to the proletariat; in short, to everything that isn’t supposed to “talk, ” and in general to whatever the knowledge-powers of government and management don’t want to hear, which is thus relegated to exclusion from all recognized activity, relegated to the role of a witness. Tiqqun
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There is no institution more terrible and destructive than an institution which feeds itself and grows fat off of the misery and suffering of others. It would do well to remember what women have been through in this world, and to put ourselves in their shoes if we really want to understand what this sentence means.

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