“When we never see who we are, never hear what we think about things, what we are doing as a group or what we are doing individually, then it is as if we are never there in the first place. Silence = Nonexistence.”

— Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, INVISIBILITY

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