“I train folks on how to facilitate with very little intervention, because we read things that aren’t there,” sujatha said. “We all bring our cultural biases to whatever work that we do, and for me, the intersectionality of gender and race is powerful in terms of how we are uncomfortable when women and girls step out of the boundaries of what we think a proper girl is.… Aggression can be read into situations. If folks are going to read aggression into the [behavior of a girl], then they are limiting her full expression, which is actually damaging to restorative practice. We need to be
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