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Morgan Carpenter

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Associate Professor, Sydney Health Ethics @sydney.edu.au School of Public Health Executive Director & lived experience human rights defender, @interaction.org.au Intersex flag creator morgancarpenter.com

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 25/06/2026
People born with variations of sex characteristics have bodies that are a little different to social and medical expectations.
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What people with intersex traits want you to know
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 24/06/2026
So what are intersex traits? Thanks to my co-authors Bonnie and Ingrid, the folks in the photo, and the editors at @theconversation.com for this explainer theconversation.com/what-people-...
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What people with intersex traits want you to know
People born with variations of sex characteristics have bodies that are a little different to social and medical expectations.
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 18/06/2026
Thanks for sharing! @interaction.org.au has made a short post recognising her original and powerful contributions, on Facebook
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 25/03/2026
The use of "trans+" to add intersex people to a trans umbrella by this org results in a complete erasure of intersex people, human rights concerns and health issues, and so contributes to misinformation. This is exemplified in the companion piece on healthcare www.wearequeeraf.com/a-brief-hist...
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A brief history of how the UK’s broken Trans+ healthcare system only serves its cisgender doctors
History shows us that the UK’s Trans+ healthcare system isn’t broken – it’s working exactly as it was meant to, right from the very start
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 19/02/2026
Yesterday was huge! Health safeguards for people with innate variations of sex characteristics have passed in the Victorian Parliament with support from across the political spectrum. Thanks to the politicians, community, allies, and staff who all played a part in getting this across the line
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InterAction for Health and Human Rights @interaction.org.au · 19/02/2026
Thank you to Victorian Parliamentarians across the political spectrum for supporting law reform to protect intersex people from harm in medical settings. Thank you to our friends and partners for helping to get this reform across the line. interaction.org.au/44749/victor...
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Victorian Parliament passes health safeguards bill - InterAction
The Victorian Parliament has passed the Health Safeguards Bill, protecting the health and wellbeing of children with innate variations of sex characteristics.
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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Mark Carney's speech at Davos was brilliant. globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
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Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If nothing else, pretty amazing Canadian PM Carney said the quiet part out loud today: international law has never been real and the ‘rules’ of the international order have never applied to the US and its allies. This may indeed be the actual death of neoliberalism. globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We join its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection.

We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim.

This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes.
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 15/01/2026
No worries! This recent consultation report by the State of Victoria might also be useful (PDF) engage.vic.gov.au/download/doc...
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
An important and brave statement from Louise Adler, resigning as director of Adelaide Writers Week.
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I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 12/01/2026
And you could refer to regional community consensus statements which respect the intersectionality of both intersex and trans populations interaction.org.au/resource/dar...
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Darlington Statement - InterAction
The Darlington Statement is a joint consensus statement by Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand intersex organisations and independent advocates, agreed in March 2017. It sets out the priorities and ca...
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 12/01/2026
You could additionally point to the need to respect the specific and distinct needs of intersex people in healthcare and legislation, example here www.health.vic.gov.au/communities/...
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Health of people with innate variations in sex characteristics
Learn about Victoria's upcoming reforms for people born with innate variations in sex characteristics—safe, consent-driven treatments with expert guidance.
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 12/01/2026
You could also point to the need to respect birth registered sex in cis intersex folks www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Is It Ever OK to Reclassify Someone Out of Their Birth-Observed Sex Without Personal Consent? How Do We Manage Competing Methods of Classifying Sex?
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 24, No. 11, 2024)
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 12/01/2026
You could point to the radically different treatment of intersex and trans populations by medicine and law, including in the US jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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US Laws Restricting Medical Care for Transgender Minors
This Special Communication analyzes US legislation seeking to prohibit gender-affirming medical care for transgender and gender-diverse minors to determine the extent to which such legislation contain...
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 12/01/2026
Hi there. I agree completely that this framing is inappropriate and misleading, but please consider how you and other folks in the US can respond to this US-produced stuff yourselves. Here in Australia we have scarce resources and capacity to take on the rest of the world
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InterAction for Health and Human Rights @interaction.org.au · 30/11/2025
The Missing Voice reveals ongoing medical interventions on intersex kids in Australia & the need for laws to protect consent. Read the report 👉 interaction.org.au/resource/the... Sign the petition 👉 equalityaustralia.org.au/take-action/...
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“The Missing Voice Report: a thematic analysis and stories of ongoing medical interventions on intersex children in Australia” - InterAction
A new report by Equality Australia in collaboration with InterAction, offering rare insight into the medical interventions currently being performed on intersex children in Australia, and the rational...
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 08/11/2025
The statement was a then last step in a multi-year process of work including the cited journal article and submissions to the WHO. More public facing materials are available on this work at intersexdepath.org
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Intersex Depath
Improving health and respect for human rights of people with innate variations of sex characteristics
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 08/11/2025
The statement went online ("date posted") on 23 May 2019, accompanied by a press release. This was technically during the World Health Assembly of that year but before the vote on the ICD
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InterAction for Health and Human Rights @interaction.org.au · 08/11/2025
Today, Intersex Day of Solidarity (also termed Intersex Day of Remembrance) we have big news: the InterLink psychosocial support service is officially accredited under national quality and safety standards for digital mental health services www.starobserver.com.au/news/interse...
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Intersex Support Service 'InterLink' Has Received Three-Year Accreditation Status - Star Observer
InterLink, a community-controlled support service for intersex people, has been officially accredited for the next three years.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
“One common strategy of mainstream political parties — adopting the same topics and rhetoric as the far-right — often backfires. Instead of reducing their appeal, it can amplify extremist narratives and legitimise their agenda.” We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.
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Mainstream loses control of agenda by mimicking far-right, study finds
During the 2024 European Parliament election campaign, centrist politicians warned about the threat posed by far-right parties to democracies. Yet experts suggest the political mainstream itself is pa...
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InterAction for Health and Human Rights @interaction.org.au · 15/10/2025
We really need your help this year, at a time of increasing challenges in securing funding for basic foundational work, as well as policy work and our delivery of psychosocial and peer support services Every little bit helps, and donations are doubled today 16 Oct giveoutday.org.au/o/inter-acti...
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GiveOUT Day 2025: Swipe Right on Impact
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OII Europe @oiieurope.org · 07/10/2025
Today on October 7th, in a watershed moment, the Council of Europe’s 46 Member States have unanimously adopted the Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on Equal Rights for #Intersex Persons, setting a new gold standard in Europe. Read the full PR here: bit.ly/4gWrr9X
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WHO @who.int · 22/08/2025
More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution & preventable deaths, according to a new @theipcinfo.bsky.social analysis released today. Read the full release: www.who.int/news/item/22...
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Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza
More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths. FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and ...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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ACCR @accr.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The science is clear: no fossil fuel projects can be opened if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change. Despite this, a slew of polluting gas projects are either poised to begin operating in Australia, or lie firmly in the sights of industry. theconversation.com/woodsides-no...
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Woodside’s North West Shelf approval is by no means a one-off. Here are 6 other giant gas projects to watch
Despite warnings of a climate catastrophe, a slew of polluting gas projects are either poised to begin or lie firmly in industry’s sights.
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 30/05/2025
What was the outcome? So much court time must be wasted by this stuff
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
What do you call it? My @smh @theage cartoon.
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 21/05/2025
It's still also our page for people in Australia and Aotearoa wanting to access the pro peer-led psychosocial support service ilink.net.au
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INTERLINK – PSYCHOSOCIAL SERVICE
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 21/05/2025
The InterLink website is relaunching as an information hub for people with innate variations of sex characteristics and our families. Check out the information and the posters! @interaction.org.au ilink.net.au
A colourful blocky image showing all kinds of bodies with the words "All bodies are beautiful" and "All bodies deserve respect"A colourful image with a body in the middle of a sunburst, with the words "Respect my body" and "Ask for consent"
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Paddy Manning @paddymanning.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Half a million people in Gaza on the brink of famine with no food or aid since March 2, AP reports, while bombing and ground operations intensify: apnews.com/article/hama...
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Israel has launched a new offensive in blockaded Gaza. Here's what to know
The war in Gaza has reached one of its darkest periods. Israel has launched another major offensive against Hamas that includes ground operations.
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Lena Simet @lenasimet.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
1/ After nearly 3 years of research, our @hrw.org report "The Gig Trap" is finally out. It documents how companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Shipt, Favor, and Amazon Flex created a business model that undermines labor rights & deepens inequality in the US. A 🧵https://hrw.org/node/391214
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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“While States debate terminology - is it or is it not genocide? - Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza, through attacks by land, air and sea, displacing and massacring the surviving population with impunity,” the experts said.
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 06/05/2025
Hi there, it looks like you don’t realise that intersex is not trans. While populations overlap, intersex folk have very different needs and circumstances. Consider reframing your work, and reading more about the population. Here’s a UN report www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
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Background Note on Human Rights Violations against Intersex People
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 06/05/2025
Hi there, it looks like you don’t realise that intersex is not trans. While populations overlap, intersex folk have very different needs and circumstances. Consider reframing your work, and reading more about the population. Here’s a UN report www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
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Background Note on Human Rights Violations against Intersex People
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InterAction for Health and Human Rights @interaction.org.au · 05/05/2025
“We congratulate the Albanese Labor government on its re-election, with the promise to reform & build, to leave no-one behind, & to promote fairness, equality & respect for one another.” -Dr Morgan Carpenter Read our statement including our call to action here- interaction.org.au/41786/call-f...
InterAction for Health and Human Rights congratulates Australian Labor on the election win.
We look forward to working with you to further the health and human rights of people with innate variations of sex characteristics in Australia.
Images include logo for InterAction- name and purple circle, logo for Labor- name and southern cross set on blue.
Photos include Anthony Albanese- pale skinned man, smiling and wearing dark rimmed glasses. he is wearing a suit, white shirt and maroon tie, Dr Morgan Carpenter- pale skinned man with short dark hair and minimal facial hair, smiing and wearing glasses. He is wearing a dark jacket and checked shirt, Ged Kearney- pale skinned woman with brunette bob, dark rimmed glasses. She is smiling and wearing a white suit in a textured fabric.
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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Dutton and the Coalition did not do the work, and misread the Australian mood
The former federal director of the Liberal Party, Brian Loughnane, used to tell media companies that their practice of commissioning expensive opinion polls right through a parliamentary term was a wa...
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Laura: “The Coalition resorted to anti-immigration sentiment, attempted to fuel irritation with welcomes to country…spoke about a woke school curriculum & raged about hate media. It prosecuted all these points with.. support of News Corp's newspapers &..Sky News. newsapp.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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This election result shows Labor learned a lesson that the Coalition did not - ABC News
The comprehensive nature of this win gives Anthony Albanese the chance to change the narrative of our politics.
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Democracy Sausage @democracysausage.org · 03/05/2025
Just putting it out there... you don't have to be a citizen to go and get a #DemocracySausage (though the Haloumi bites look delicious too!)
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 29/04/2025
and a point being made is that, here, the PHON vote appears to have increased in recent polling, and the LNP are seeking PHON preferences
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 29/04/2025
"The former German chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised Friedrich Merz, her eventual successor as leader of the country’s conservatives, for pushing through proposals on migration and asylum with the backing of the far-right AfD party." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Angela Merkel rebukes CDU leader for alliance with far-right on immigration
Ex-chancellor makes rare intervention to criticise her own party for passing asylum policy with support of AfD
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 29/04/2025
I feel it’s important to acknowledge a finding from European elections: if the centre right adopts far right messaging, they just make it more acceptable for people to support the far right
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 29/04/2025
Tim Flannery expresses both pragmatism and vision in this great interview
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 27/04/2025
I don’t know this one!
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 27/04/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
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a close up of a man 's face in the rain with water coming out of his eyes .
Alt: A close up of a man's face in the rain with water coming out of his eyes: Rutger Hauer delivering the "Tears in the rain" monologue in Blade Runner (1992). The monologue reads: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off (the) shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
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Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Wait so, men and women can’t share spaces “because it is unsafe”, so a trans man can’t go in the men’s room because he “is not a man”, but he can’t go in the women’s room because “he looks like a man”, so he needs a segregated “mixed sex room” that men and women will *safely* share IM SORRY WHAT?!
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 26/04/2025
I’m definitely impressed by her survival skills!
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 26/04/2025
I don't know that Valerie here really needed rescuing, although there are other reasons why a loose dog would not be a good thing on this island "Valerie the dachshund has been rescued after being lost for 529 days on Kangaroo Island." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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Valerie the dachshund found 'fit and well' after 529 days on island
The beloved miniature dachshund, who disappeared on a South Australian island 529 days ago, has been found safe and well by wildlife rescuers.
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 25/04/2025
People with innate variations of sex characteristics (intersex/dsd) are usually cisgender, but we can all be impacted by legislation targeting trans people. This preprint (I’m proud to have coauthored with a great team) looks at intersex exceptions in US legislation restricting care for trans youth
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Morgan Carpenter @morgancarpenter.com · 24/04/2025
Can't see any comprehension or inclusivity of the I in the report www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/sites/defaul...
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 23/04/2025
Sara Ahmed has written an entire book on this, titled, aptly, "Complaint!" www.dukeupress.edu/complaint
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Complaint!
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