Shame...is a first rate form of social control. Shame is wh… - Michael Bronski

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Shame...is a first rate form of social control. Shame is what keeps us in line, what prevents us from discovering not so much who we are, but what we might become.

Michael Bronski

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Michael Bronski (born May 12, 1949) is an academic and writer, who has won numerous awards for LGBTQ activism and scholarship, including the prestigious Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. Bronski is a Professor of Practice in Media and Activism at Harvard University.

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