"It might well be asked, then, what makes a chinese woman, who sews a shirt in a chinese factory that sells for three dollars on the streets of vancouver, a stranger when she presents herself at the Canadian border as a migrant? Is not the relationship between the nation of consuming citizen and this woman--and with the countless others like her whose lives are spent making the products that clothe, feed, nurture and sustain them--an intimate one?"
~Sunera Thobani: Nationals, Citizens and Others~
This is a quote that has stuck out to me all year. I've written many essay's/pieces on the way in which politics is personal and that the policies that are made behind closed doors, within bedrooms and with the people around us cannot be separated from the policies that are made from a platform.
I hope this leaves an impression of honesty with you...
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