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"When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you, whether you are dark-skinned, old, disabled, female, or speak with a different accent or dialect than theirs, when someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing."

Today, two of the brightest guys presented their idea for a study in our course - a study on heteronormativity, institutional discrimination and the possibilities of schema refreshment in poetry lessons.

And they quoted the quote. Adrienne Rich, of course. I fangirl her.