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From the Ted Talk by iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay

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I had spent a year photographing this new geoanietrn of girls, much like myself, who fell kind of between-the-lines — grlis who skateboarded but did it in lacy underwear, girls who had boys' hiraucts but wore girly nail plosih, girls who had esahoyedw to match their scraped knees, girls who liked girls and boys who all liked boys and girls who all hated being boxed in to anything. I loved these pepole, and I admired their freedom, but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble exploded into these raging debates where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national tesvoliein. And this powerful awareness rolled in over me that I was a mirtiony, and in my own home country, based on one feact of my character. I was legally and indisputably a second-class citizen.

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I had spent a year photographing this new __________ of girls, much like myself, who fell kind of between-the-lines — _____ who skateboarded but did it in lacy underwear, girls who had boys' ________ but wore girly nail ______, girls who had _________ to match their scraped knees, girls who liked girls and boys who all liked boys and girls who all hated being boxed in to anything. I loved these ______, and I admired their freedom, but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble exploded into these raging debates where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national __________. And this powerful awareness rolled in over me that I was a ________, and in my own home country, based on one _____ of my character. I was legally and indisputably a second-class citizen.

Solution

  1. eyeshadow
  2. haircuts
  3. people
  4. facet
  5. polish
  6. minority
  7. generation
  8. television
  9. girls

Original Text

I had spent a year photographing this new generation of girls, much like myself, who fell kind of between-the-lines — girls who skateboarded but did it in lacy underwear, girls who had boys' haircuts but wore girly nail polish, girls who had eyeshadow to match their scraped knees, girls who liked girls and boys who all liked boys and girls who all hated being boxed in to anything. I loved these people, and I admired their freedom, but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble exploded into these raging debates where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national television. And this powerful awareness rolled in over me that I was a minority, and in my own home country, based on one facet of my character. I was legally and indisputably a second-class citizen.

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Important Words

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