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FEATURING LORETTA ROSS - Black feminist and reproductive justice organizer Loretta Ross has years of experience dealing with people she fundamentally disagrees with, starting with an experience she had as a young sexual assault survivor. She was working as a rape counselor when she received a letter from a convicted rapist asking to meet her in prison because he wanted to learn how not to be a rapist.

At first she was enraged but then decided to meet him. That interaction started her on a life-long journey to develop a philosophy of how people who are fundamentally on opposite sides of one another can come together. In her new book, Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel, which is a handbook, a memoir, and manifesto, all at once, she lays out what she has learned. 

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