Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary …

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Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive ✨ bell hooks (2014). Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black, p.63, Routledge
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