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Like many people thrown into TJ out of our own survivorhood in the late 1990s, we just made it up as we went along. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I knew hardly anyone else talking about the realities of abuse within activist communities—and community accountability or dealing with abuse without the cops? That was an even wilder “crazy talk” idea. Because of this scarcity, I was “the only one” a lot of people could talk to, and as a result I held a lot of intense stories of abuse in my head that I couldn’t tell anyone.
Sadomasochism feeds the belief that domination is inevitable and legitimately enjoyable.
A Burst of Light
Audre Lorde, Jen Keenan, and Sonia Sanchez
But the genealogy of the word should give us pause. It’s deeply connected to the uniquely American gospel of self-improvement as it filtered down through the Protestant ethos of election, according to which worldly success was a measure of divine favor.
The Best American Essays 2019
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