I have almost always been an especially proud Temple alum. It was the working class PA school for weirdos who dyed their hair and needed to escape central PA. It was diverse, it was ostensibly pro-labor, it was where I was radicalized. It was the first place I met more than one or two openly queer people, the place I learned socialists still existed (and joined them), the place I first read Marx not framed as an evil ideologue but as someone to learn from, the place I ran to at 17 when I felt like my small town would squish me until there was nothing left.
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I have almost always been an especially proud Temple alum. It was the working class PA school for weirdos who dyed their hair and needed to escape central PA. It was diverse, it was ostensibly pro-labor, it was where I was radicalized. It was the first place I met more than one or two openly queer people, the place I learned socialists still existed (and joined them), the place I first read Marx not framed as an evil ideologue but as someone to learn from, the place I ran to at 17 when I felt like my small town would squish me until there was nothing left.