My partner and I both grew up in different colonized countries and we're raising our kids here in the US and we keep having these subtle disagreements about what stories to tell them about where we come from and what got lost and what to preserve. We love each other but we're operating from completely different maps of what happened to our families and what it means now.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are trying to create shared meaning about heritage and identity while carrying different wounds and different strategies for cultural survival.
“Where Are You with The examined colonial subject?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.