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Because of the Prescott Recovery Industry's refusal to hold an opinion on anything other than alcoholism and its lack of self-critique, leading to an extreme lack of discourse surrounding intersectionality, alcoholism is equated with white, cisgender, straight men. When you walk into the doors of AA, you are solely an alcoholic. Not a black alcoholic affected by issues of racial prejudice and oppression, and not a trans alcoholic plagued by transphobia, for these intersections of identity are outside issues not to be brought into a meeting space, but rather to be overcome. Alcoholics Anonymous, and thus any treatment structure founded on the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous, interacts with non-normative individuals as a complete erasure of identity, a push towards normativity, and further marginalization of non- normative individuals.

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