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On finding freedom for every body By Lauren LeBlanc Globe Correspondent,Updated April 28, 2021, 11:03 p.m. Email to a Friend A protestor waved a Black Lives Matter flag in front a Nina Simone music video during demonstrations in Portland, Ore., last year. Author Olivia Laing captures a moment where Simone, in conversation with an interviewer, recognizes that the absence of fear is, for her, the embodiment of freedom.Mason Trinca/NYT Today, long after 9/11, freedom remains an overdetermined concept. Remember “Freedom Fries?” The word itself has been appropriated across the entire political spectrum. Too often it’s co-opted to bludgeon human rights in defense of so-called individual freedom as in the contemporary politicization of mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Defused of its meaning, writers like Olivia Laing — in company with Louis Menand (“The Free World”) and Maggie Nelson (whose “On Freedom” is forthcoming this fall) — aim

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