Decolonisation of the Mind

Previously

…Yes, we had suffered a setback. Yes, Dubois and her ilk were powerful. But we had something they lacked: a shared vision, a burning desire for genuine liberation, and a growing understanding of our own inherent worth. The serpent might coil, it might strike, but we were learning to dance around its deadly embrace, to anticipate its movements, and to find strength not in fighting its venom, but in healing ourselves from within. The war was far from over, but standing there, surrounded by my newfound allies, I knew, with a certainty that settled deep in my bones, that we were no longer fighting in the dark. We were fighting with the light of our own awakened minds.