Doing the Work

Racialised trauma, healing from the raw wounds,

Of intra-oppression, shaming and sideways glances,

Walking into an English village pub without being violated,

For invalidation comes from turning our backs on white supremacy,

Cultures precipitate wrongdoing to be slowly undone,

By liberating our biases from cloaked states of mind;

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We stand far from prejudiced spaces not naming privilege,

Invisibilising our beings in favour of protecting interests,

Completing EDI trainings for the sake of passing tests,

And looking good on paper, a faux pas for inclusion,

Leading to no responsibility taken for historical harm’s violence.