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When your family grieves someone you cannot mourn

Everyone in my family is devastated about the Queen dying but I keep thinking about colonialism and I cannot grieve with them

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Collective mourning can expose irreconcilable differences in how we understand history and harm.

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“Where Are You with Collective grief — mourning public figures and tragedies?”

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