Periagoge
Scenario

When multi-ethnic activist groups struggle with competing decolonization frameworks

Our activist collective is made up of people from different colonized backgrounds—Black, Indigenous, and various immigrant communities—and we're supposed to be building solidarity, but we keep getting derailed by arguments about whose oppression is more fundamental or whose resistance strategies should take priority. We all believe in decolonization but we can't agree on what that looks like when our histories and current realities are so different.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is discovering that shared opposition to colonialism doesn't automatically create shared visions of liberation.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Postcolonial identity and decolonization?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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