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Person-led pluralism is about moving beyond empathetic neutrality to explicitly recognising and challenging structural oppression, historical trauma, and cultural hegemony. It is about following a person's choices in how they seek to heal, recognising the multiplicities of mental health truths and beliefs across and even within individuals.

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(“Anti-Love Poem” – Grace Paley)

Quote by Angela Davis

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The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978)

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Labi Siffre - “Bless the Telephone”

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The best revenge is none. Move on and heal yourself so you don’t become like the people who traumatized you.

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The Elusive Summer of '68 (Goran Paskaljevic, 1984)

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Somalia. Literacy teaching. 1974.

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“If we lived in a culture with a higher tolerance for ambiguity, rather than obsession with measurement, fixed identity, and knowability, transition wouldn’t be so confounding to people, and the process might be more normal. Epistemologically, we are anal retentive. Not rigorous, just stressed out. We need to know what a trans girl is. What are you, trans people get asked. Where are you from, people of colour get asked. White supremacist capitalism wants to make a map of everything, and then monetize the ways that things move around the map. Basically literally. The museum.”

— Baer, H., 2022. Trans Girl Suicide Museum. Los Angeles: Hesse Press. pp. 131-132.

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Never could I have imagined that I would find myself organizing within radical spaces in the way that I am now. The path has been far from easy, and the idealized vision of activism that is often glamorized bears little resemblance to the difficulties we face on the ground. How do we resolve interpersonal conflicts, how do we keep the numbers, how do we engage beyond our echo chambers and beyond our personal feelings, how do we keep our focus on the main enemy instead of canceling every single person we do not agree with. I am exhausted, yet there is a deep sense of fulfillment in this work. Along the way, I have faced intense critique—often harsh—but I remain steadfast. I continue to work alongside individuals who, at times, trigger me, yet I navigate these personal challenges, because each time I witness the community rally together, each time new faces arrive, eager to learn, to contribute, and to stand in solidarity, my resolve only strengthens.

In a world where resistance fighters are martyred, one by one, my struggle remains internal—confronting my own trauma, my triggers, and the complexities of collaboration. If I am to fall in this fight, InshaAllah I will not—but should that come to pass, I will accept it. What matters is that the community continues to grow, and that the fight persists.

Moving

And just like that, I’m moving countries again.

I do feel anxious about it, but I don’t doubt the move. I just don’t feel at home here and every space I walk in feels hostile. Maybe it’s me, maybe people are not hostile and I’m just too demanding. Maybe I’m wrong and everyone’s right.

But I guess I need to find what makes me feel good and stop trying to people please my way into hostile spaces.

This will be the 2nd country I’m moving to and I plan to spend the start of my 30s fresh.

I am nervous but also very, very excited.