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Melanie Brown

Posted on August 21, 2018 August 22, 2018

‘You Had No Father, You Had The Armor’

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Melanie Brown
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abuse, Blackness, fathers, Growing Up, masculinity, queer, sex, trauma

Silence and sex turn into offerings when men decide you owe them something. Read more

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