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Decolonising Love

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Decolonization is about understanding that our realities, and everything we consider the norm and acceptable, are made up by westernisation. Our idea of fun, families, economics and even love has been shaped by colonisation. I have been forced to reckon with how colonialism may be responsible for my idea of love, and whilst I have reached my conclusion, I know it is not one I want others to be forced to choose. Decolonialism is about humility, the acceptance that there are many realities and truths outside one, that there are a multiplicity of ways of life, and we should all be allowed to choose. One way is never the only way, and one way is never the only right way. The comments and vitriol against Jada Pinkett Smith for expressing her rights in her open marriage show just how far we have to go as a society in letting people choose what works for them and what makes them happy. Our hyper-focus on finding the “one” reflects the success of Western media in ensuring we feel purposeless a

Decolonising Love: Rethinking Affection & Connection Skip to content May 24, 2022 Decolonising Love Theophilus Wellington Decolonization is about understanding that our realities, and everything we consider the norm and acceptable, are made up by westernisation. Our idea of fun, families, economics and even love has been shaped by colonisation. I have been forced to reckon with how colonialism may be responsible for my idea of love, and whilst I have reached my conclusion, I know it is not one I want others to be forced to choose. Decolonialism is about humility, the acceptance that there are

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