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As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in – gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.

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I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

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The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.

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May 25, 2024

The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.

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May 25, 2024

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

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