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What does it mean?
Suffering is universal and not limited to one gender.
In plain terms
Everyone suffers, not just women.
What can you take from it?
Recognize shared human suffering.

Where it applies

  • social justice
  • empathy
  • debate

Putting it to work

  • listening
  • inclusion
  • solidarity

Questions to consider

  • How do you suffer?
  • Who else hurts?

Another view

It simplifies complex gendered experiences of pain.

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