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.
A group is discovering that shared opposition to colonialism doesn't automatically create shared visions of liberation.
“Where Are You with Postcolonial identity and decolonization?”
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