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Social Silence and Mad Pride

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Ashley Cowan D'Ambrosio
Tam Nguyen 

The more things go unsaid, the more they stay the same.

Anthropologist Gillian Tett says if we don’t talk about our unspoken cultural rules, we won’t notice who they do and don't serve. Ashley Coan D’Ambrosio tells the story of her mental illness, because when individuals stay quiet, systems go unchanged.

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