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The brilliant Audre Lorde (1980) once admonished, “Your silence will not protect you.” Of course she is right, although, at times, in those small moments of everyday cowardice, it can feel as if it might.
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Busman, D. (2017). Silences and Stories. In: Wiebe, S., Lyle, E., Wright, P.R., Dark, K., McLarnon, M., Day, L. (eds) Ways of Being in Teaching. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-092-9_7
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