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In my community organizing and in my professional work life, I used to take those uncomfortable sensations–failure, embarrassment, missed opportunities–as a sign of my inadequacy and as a reason to quit. The blows are going to come, it’s what I do after them that counts.

My Brass Tacks chat with Veronica A Perez was a gift last Friday. It was a calm chance to make sense of a week in which my spirit and memory were bombarded by misogyny, violence, pain - from Cosby to Kavanaugh - to reflecting on Anita, Monica, Christina and millions of nameless survivors.