Bianca Jagger
Nicaraguan human rights advocate
The climate catastrophe.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Bloody radiator keeps banging. I think it needs air releasing but I don’t have a bleeding key.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗
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Any fashion designer whose clothes on me must have made them weep.
Like driving a Ford Mustang with the top down across the Golden Gate Bridge while the sun is setting and you have a dinner reservation in Sausalito.
My life won’t have full quality until we achieve equality for all.
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