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After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization

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The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)

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You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Writings 2011-2021

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