Part One: How Whiteness Shaped My Friendships and Why I Can’t Pretend Anymore
A personal and research-grounded reflection on how whiteness shaped my friendships, the identity I learned to perform, and the liberation that followed.
A personal and research-grounded reflection on how whiteness shaped my friendships, the identity I learned to perform, and the liberation that followed.
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.
Authenticity promises freedom. Safety has always required something else.
Part Two moves beyond personal rupture to expose the structures beneath it. An examination of whiteness, empathy, betrayal, and awakening as resistance.