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‘Woke’ was invented by angry schoolgirls on Tumblr

16 April 2025

11:21 PM

16 April 2025

11:21 PM

For the first half of the 2010s, any teenage girl in her room had a chance of amassing more political influence than a junior government advisor. She could define political terms and concepts, blacklist undesirable elements and argue for a different kind of society. Thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, of other teenage girls would be following her, reading and engaging.

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