De-humanisation is the Trojan horse of genocide, to strip someone of their humanity allows for cognitive justification of their suffering. I argue that one must abandon their own humanity to dehumanise another, and I think as humans we have collectively conditioned each other to avoid/ deny/ devalue our full humanity…

Claiming our 𝖥𝖴𝖫𝖫 𝖧𝖴𝖬𝖠𝖭𝖨𝖳𝖸 and personal freedom is an incredibly radical and challenging act under the structures of conditioning we grow up in. And I see a variety of approaches within the collective, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇, who deeply desire to create change. The complexity of unpacking our conditioning can feel overwhelming, because challenging what has become ‘normal’ is vulnerable, scary, unsafe for an instinctually social mammal. It is also complex…