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From The Feminist Killjoy Handbook:

"KILLJOY TRUTH: To expose a problem is to pose a problem.

I think of this killjoy truth as a *core truth*, a truth from which so much else follows. If you expose a problem, you pose a problem; if you pose a problem; you become the problem. The management of a problem becomes the management of a person. In other words, one way of dealing with a problem is to stop people from talking about it or to make the people who talk about it go away. If people stop talking about the problem, or the people who talk about it go away, it can then be assumed that the problem has gone away. I hear an instruction here. We are being told to stop talking about problems or go away."