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We're just a couple of dope-ish, woke-ish friends who release a weekly podcast that explores the privilege and discrimination we see in our own lives, and creates a space for listeners to ask questions, reflect, and grow around social justice issues.
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Asase Ba podcast honours oral tradition and shines a light on Ghanaian stories that are often untold or silenced. Hosted by Ghanaian Canadian Michelle. Join the conversation by using the hashtag #AsaseBaPod.
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Join Dee and Skinny on this wild ride where we explore the thread of humanity that connects us as two women in their 30's living in Nairobi after having also lived abroad for a significant number of years; and also watch that thread unravel at the intersection of our very different lived experiences as a heterosexual and homosexual duo. It's gonna be fun and nothing but good vibes!
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S5E5 Traditional Akan Spirituality in Ghana
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In the season 5 finale of Asase Ba, I talk about the traditional spirituality of Akan people. I discuss Nyankopon, Asaase Yaa/Afua, Abosom, Nananom Nsamanfo, Mmoatia, Akomfo, hyebre vs. nkrabea and more! Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. TRANSCRIPT https://www.asaseba.com/podcast/season-5/episode-5-akan-spirituality-in-ghana…
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S5E4 The Ghana x Jamaica Connection ft. Moco
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Moco joins me to discuss Afro-Jamaicans and their connection to ethnic groups from Ghana, Koromantis/Coromantees, Jamaican Maroons, some of the experiences of trans and queer people in Jamaica and much more. Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. WEBSITE Check out our official website for podcast transcripts and resources by and …
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S5E3 Queer Visibility and Heteronormativity in Ghana ft. David
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David joins me to discuss some of the experiences of queer people in Ghana, the proposed anti-lgbt bill, being visibly queer, heteronormativity, and more. Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. WEBSITE Check out our official website for podcast transcripts and resources by and for Ghanaians at https://www.asaseba.com/ SUPPORT To …
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S5E2 Life as an Intersex Person in Ghana ft. Papa Kojo
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Papa Kojo joins me to discuss some of the experiences of intersex people in Ghana, documenting queer elders, highlighting marginalized LGBTQIA+ people, queer joy and more. Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. WEBSITE Check out our official website for podcast transcripts and resources by and for Ghanaians at https://www.asaseba…
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S5E1 Traditional Education & Indigenous Knowledge in Ghana
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In the season 5 premiere of Asase Ba, I talk about indigenous knowledge and traditional education in Ghana. I discuss the differences between Western education and African indigenous knowledge systems, pre-colonial education in Ghana, benefits of traditional education, what it looks like today and more! Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag …
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We're back with a new season of Asase Ba! Season 5 is another mixed bag of episodes about Ghanaian stories that are often untold or silenced. Subscribe so you can listen when season 5 drops! Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. WEBSITE Check out our official website for podcast transcripts and resources by and for Ghanaians at …
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S4E3 What Was Pre-Colonial Ghana Actually Like? ft. Hermann
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On this episode, we dive into a discussion about pre-colonial Ghana! Hermann (pronouns: he/his) joins us to discuss the romanticization of pre-colonial Ghana, what we can learn from back then, nuances in interpreting history, the limitations of written and oral history, and much more! Join in on the conversation by using the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. TR…
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S4E2 Building a Queer Community ft. Omorowa
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We're doing an interview episode! Omorowa (pronouns: she/they) joins us to discuss how they built their queer community, forming communities outside the heteronormative gaze, relationship anarchy, meeting other queer Ghanaians, how queerness expanded her concept of friendship, and more! Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. WEBS…
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S4E1 The Impact of Missionaries in Ghana
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On the season 4 premiere of Asase Ba, we chat about the impact of Christian missionaries in Ghana. We focus on The Basel Mission, its creation, why they came to Gold Coast/Ghana, their major hubs in Akropong (Eastern Region) and Abokobi (Greater Accra Region), techniques they used to convert Ghanaians, how some Ghanaians converted for economic reas…
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We're back with a new season of Asase Ba! Season 4 is another mixed bag of episodes about Ghanaian stories that are often untold or silenced. Subscribe so you can listen when season 4 drops! Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. WEBSITE Check out our official website for podcast transcripts and resources by and for Ghanaians at …
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ARE YOU A BABYGIRL? Discussing Finances in Gay and Heteronormative Relationships
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Dee and Skinny discuss their experiences with finances in relationships - who spoils who? Who's expected to pick up the bill? Listen to find out!
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Does Your Partner Play A Role In Your Mental Health?
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Dee and Skinny discuss the role your partner plays in your mental health.
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What Is The Lesson That's Taking You The Longest To Learn?
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You know that one thing that you keep trying to reform or change within yourself but you keep messing up and ending back at square 1? Dee and Skinny discuss the lesson that's taken them the longest to learn in today's episode.
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Season 2 is FINALLY here! We've had to overcome some hurdles individually and collectively in order to get Season 2 to you - but we're here. In our first episode, we talk about how we each go about structuring our goals for the year. What about you? Have you stuck to your New Year Resolutions? Did you have any? Let us know and thank you so much for…
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Are gay and lesbian people fetishised in Kenya? Is being queer some form of clout chasing? Join Dee and Skinny on the final episode of Season 1...oh they're in their complete feelings on this one!
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What Even Is Toxic Femininity? Let's Break It Down
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This week, Dee and Skinny discuss toxic femininity in relationships, friendships and family.
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S3E5 Visions of the Future…From the Imaginations of Ghanaians
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On the season 3 finale of Asase Ba, Michelle discusses the importance of creativity and imagination, Afrofuturism, her visions of the future as it pertains to oral tradition, cultural work, and queerness. We also hear recordings from Makafui and Amma Gyamfowa on their visions of the future, and more! Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #As…
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Friends With The Ex: No Benefits, Just Friends...Can It Work?
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Can you REALLY be friends with your ex? No crossing lines? No benefits, just friends? Join Dee and Skinny as they discuss their personal experiences being friends with exes.
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Where Are You Going? What Time Will You Be Home? Who Are You Meeting and What Do Their Parents Do?
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Dee and Skinny haven't lived at home with their parents and siblings in decades in each case. What happens when you move back home and are now suddenly forced to answer questions like "What time will you be home?" "Who are you going with?"
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S3E4 History of Ghanaian Fashion and Hair ft. Asaaba
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History lover Asaaba joins Michelle to discuss Ghana and Gold Coast fashion, hair, and style from the 1800s to the present, photographs taken by colonialists vs. Ghanaians, Ghanaian photographers James Barnor and Felicia Abban, diversity of the Ga identity, the colonial origins of the kaba and slit, depicting our fashions through her 3D art, the im…
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I Get A Pass, You Get A Pass, Everybody Gets A Pass: Discussing Free Passes In Monogamous Relationships - Can They Really Work?
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Have you ever given your partner a free pass in your relationship? Have you received one? This week, Dee and Skinny discuss their views on whether a free pass can actually be a good thing for a relationship and what it would entail.
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No Sex For 7 Years and Killing Expectations: The Difference Between Dating In Our 20's vs. Our 30's
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If you had a time machine and could go back to your first relationship, would you still make the decisions you made? In today's episode we discuss the dating mistakes we made in our teens and 20's, what we've learned in our 30's and what kind of relationships we can tolerate now.
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S3E3 Non-Binary Concepts in Ghanaian Traditional Religions
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Michelle is back with a solo episode all about non-binary concepts in traditional Ghanaian religions! She discusses how they manifest within the Ga, Dagomba, Ewe, Akan and Dagaara traditional belief systems. Michelle chats about the various Creators within the different ethnic groups, in particular Ataa Naa Nyongmo, Naawuni, Mawu, Onyankopong/Nyame…
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Free Pass In Marriage, No Options Available For Same Sex Couples in Kenya Who Want To Marry Traditionally and More...
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If you're a heterosexual girl, you have probably always dreamed of one day getting married...probably down to the most intricate detail, because society allows and pre-empts the marriage of heterosexual individuals. What happens when you're in a same sex relationship and these options are not available to you because your country not only refuses t…
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Modern relationships have expanded the purview of what it means to cheat on someone. It used to be that infidelity was when a person had sex with another person outside of a committed relationship. Nowadays, infidelity includes emotions, finances and even attention - it's no longer considered just physical. On this episode, we discuss whether we've…
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S3E2 The Storytellers are the Farmers (Ancestral Ghanaian Foods) ft. Abena
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Researcher, writer and food consultant Abena joins Michelle to discuss ancestral Ghanaian foods. Abena talks about collecting the narratives of our ancestral foods, documenting the knowledge of farmers in Bolgatanga Upper East Region, valuing African traditions as equal, prioritizing the voices of residents, women farmers, how to NOT replicate colo…
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Skinny and Dee have vastly different experiences as women. Heterosexual women who are sexually active will have experienced the side effects of contraception at one point. So how is it possible that Skinny once got a pregnancy scare??
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How Do You Know English? Glorifying Western Countries and Reverse Culture Shock
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Skinny moved between America and Kenya from age 2. Dee moved to Australia at 19 where she lived for thirteen years. Neither one of them could have foreseen how life would turn out and that they would eventually find themselves back in Kenya, but with an omnipresent feeling of being neither here nor there - neither fully Kenyan nor fully Western.…
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"I had a dream..." was the conversation that literally got us here. Dee and Skinny both entered a podcast competition at the start of the year. They both didn't win. Dee later had a dream of starting a podcast with Skinny and told her. After a brief "ok you Martin Luther King mofo, let's!" Here we are.…
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S3E1 The Person Behind the Voice (Michelle's Ghanaian Story)
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Asase Ba is BACK with season 3! In this episode, get to know the host and voice behind this podcast: Michelle! Michelle talks about the importance of anchoring ourselves within our work, visibility in the social media era, her childhood in Kumasi, creative expression, intergenerational insights, Sankofa, ancestral wisdom, intentional communities, h…
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Season 3 of Asase Ba is dropping very soon! This season features a mixed bag of amazing conversations as well as some solo episodes! Subscribe to hear when the official first episode drops! Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. TRANSCRIPT https://asaseba.com/podcast/season-3/trailer SUPPORT E-transfer or via PayPal to asasebapod…
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S2E4 Let's Listen to Our Children (Uncle Emmanuel's Ghanaian Story)
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In S2E4 of Asase Ba, Michelle talks to Uncle Emmanuel about growing up in the Ashanti region in Ghana, vivid childhood memories, cultural customs and traditions, the political climate when he was growing up in Ghana, moving to Germany then Canada, the Ghanaian Canadian Association of Ontario, life lessons, wisdom for the youth, and his peers, and m…
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S2E3 We Live as a Community (Aunty Theresa’s Ghanaian Story)
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In S2E3 of Asase Ba, Michelle talks to Aunty Theresa about moving between regions while growing up in Ghana and the challenges that came with that, Northern Ghana Talensi culture, the Gologo festival, speaking multiple languages, going to teacher’s college in Tamale, her involvement within the Northern Ghana Culture Association in Canada, self care…
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S2E2 Who Are You to Stop It? (Aunty Janet's Ghanaian Story)
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In S2E2 of Asase Ba, Michelle talks to Aunty Janet about growing up in Accra (La), Ga culture, migration of Ga people, going to school in the Eastern region of Ghana, her passion for art, making jollof, Homowo, her love of church, and much more. Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. TRANSCRIPT https://asaseba.com/podcast/season-…
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S2E1 Be Careful How You Talk at Home (Aunty Felicia's Ghanaian Story)
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In the season 2 premier of Asase Ba, Michelle talks to Mrs. Felicia Botchway about growing up in Ghana during Independence, her family’s journey from Togo, to the Volta Region to Kumasi, The Young Pioneers, herbalism, immigrating to Canada in the 1970, intelligentials, connecting with her Ewe community, her work as a hairstylist and salon owner, ho…
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Asase Ba is back with season 2! Season 2 is all about the elders - their stories, experiences, and wisdom for the youth. Subscribe to hear when the official first episode drops! Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. TRANSCRIPT https://asaseba.com/podcast/season-2/trailer WEBSITE https://asaseba.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https:/…
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S1E5 Aunty Madam’s Ghanaian Story
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In the Season 1 finale of Asase Ba, Aunty Madam joins Michelle to discuss her childhood growing up in Kumasi, her dreams of being a newscaster, becoming a teacher in Ghana, boarding school experiences, immigrating to Canada in 1975, discrimination she faced as an immigrant, her love of fashion, words of wisdom for the youth, and much more. Asase Ba…
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Episode 8: Guilty until Proven Innocent, Huh?
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We mark the one-year anniversary of the Kavanaugh confirmation with some thoughts on who REALLY gets to be innocent until proven guilty.
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Amma Gyamfowa joins Michelle to discuss mental health as it relates to Ghanaian Canadian people. They also discuss the state of mental health conversations in the Ghanaian Toronto community, stigma surrounding therapy, alternative ways Ghanaians can approach mental health counselling, addressing familial elders who are experiencing mental health ch…
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Olivia joins host Michelle to discuss her experiences as a queer Ghanaian woman, bisexuality, biphobia, the nuances of having a romantic and or sexual attraction towards women, her relationship to church, redefining her relationship with God, publishing authentic work while not out, dating when living with family, writing as a de-stressing outlet, …
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S1E2 Divination & Juju Stigma in the Ghanaian Community
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Ayo joins Michelle to discuss divination, manifestation, and connecting with ancestors. They also chat about Yoruba divination, stigmas associated with traditional African spirituality, colonial propaganda, religious syncretism as it relates to Islam and Yoruba divination, and much more. Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. TRA…
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S1E1 A Queer Ghanaian Man's Story
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Theatre artist Tawiah joins Michelle to discuss his experiences as a queer Ghanaian man, growing up in Ghana as a queer boy, immigrating to Canada at the age of 14, his work as a theatre artist, finding work in the theatre world as a Ghanaian immigrant, creating work in order to be seen , truths he wants to tell the world, his personal relationship…
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Welcome to Asase Ba! In this minisode, host and producer Michelle introduces herself, talks about the meaning of "Asase Ba", her inspiration behind the podcast, oral tradition, and amplifying the voices of folks whose stories are often untold. Join in on the conversation! Use the hashtag #AsaseBaPod. TRANSCRIPT https://asaseba.com/podcast/season-1/…
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Episode 7: Smash the Heteronormative Patriarchy!
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For Pride Month 2019 we solicit input from friends and family in the LGBTQIA+ community to discuss the concept of "straight privilege" and how it affects their daily lives.
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Voice for Values - What’s happening Canada over a decade after same-sex marriage was legalised?
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Are concerns about religious freedom just scaremongering? Or in the light of the same-sex marriage vote, should the church be concerned about freedom of religion, conscience and thought in Australia? This week on Voice for Values, ACL’s Managing Director Martyn Iles and Executive Director of Christian Legal Fellowship Canada Derek Ross discuss what…
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We discuss tiki bars, soul food, and whether or not it's okay to use the word "tribe" (spoiler: we're okay with it).
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We recap privilege, define implicit bias, ramble into the world of Bumble BFF, and suggest some easy ways to spice up your life.
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Voice for Values - The story of a former transgender
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Walt Heyer is a former transgender woman. He has since detransitioned and now runs a counselling ministry called Transgender Regret.For this week’s Voice for Values, ACL’s Director of Research Dr. Elisabeth Taylor speaks with Walt about his fascinating, insightful and compelling story.Av Australian Christian Lobby
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In this episode we continue our discussion about race privilege and white privilege, with a focus on a few ways that black and brown people's life experiences differ from those of white people. We also go on a tangent about immigration, and might serenade you with some 90's pop...Warning: we're not professional singers.…
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Voice for Values - Heteronormativity and its impact on education
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What is heteronormativity? It’s a word that describes a whole set of beliefs we all once took for granted. Now it is being turned on its head.This week’s Voice for Values, Director of Researcher at ACL, Dr. Elisabeth Taylor continue to discuss with Martyn Iles how heteronormativity is impacting our education system and our schools.…
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