Writer and Teacher Sarah Mina Osman on Why It's Important to Fight Like Hell
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When Sarah Mina Osman showed up to teach her high school class the day after the 2016 election, someone had written "deportation day" on her blackboard. She crossed it out and wrote "Revolution Day."In this episode she talks to Amy about why it's important to avoid apathy, what her Egyptian dad taught her about standing up for herself, and what it's like to be a half-Arabic woman in the U.S. today.
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