Authenticity Won't Protect You: Rethinking Safety, Adaptation, and Self-Trust
Authenticity promises freedom. Safety has always required something else.
Authenticity promises freedom. Safety has always required something else.
Victim mentality is often used to shame people who have been harmed. This piece explores why that framing fails, and how healing begins without blame or bypassing.
Part Two moves beyond personal rupture to expose the structures beneath it. An examination of whiteness, empathy, betrayal, and awakening as resistance.
A personal and research-grounded reflection on how whiteness shaped my friendships, the identity I learned to perform, and the liberation that followed.