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Radicalism and heart

Becky Fury

Becky Fury is a stand-up comic whose work as a "British-ish, brown-ish and nonbinary-ish" comedian includes C*nt!, Becky Fury: Identity and Molotov Cocktail Party.

In London there is a library dedicated to feminist literature. The feminist library. When they set it up the founders rejected the Dewey Decimal Classification system which is usually used to classify books in libraries on the basis that it was an oppressive construct of the patriarchy. They replaced it with a system of colours instead that could be used to categorise the works of the female authors. The books by the male authors were categorised...

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