Talking About It is a space by and for white people, in partnership with people of all backgrounds, to tell their stories with the aim of owning and transforming oppression from within. It creates spaces to explore the many stories, including the privileges and challenges, of being white in the 21st century.
Through this program Nicole le Roux is telling her story and making a space to own all of the parts of herself, including her role in oppression. She is sharing it with people who want to hear it, and creating spaces where more people can begin to transform their silences by “Talking About It”.
Having lived in both countries, Nicole has experienced silence in similar and different ways in America and in South Africa. Talking About It will be officially launched in the USA this November but the conversations will happen online and in workshop spaces in both countries.
In her second post put up today, Nicole asks:
Do we think that, if people knew the hard things about us they would no longer remember the good? Or is it that when we look at the hard things in ourselves, we forget to look at the good?
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