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" I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals. "

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" I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s. "

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