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Last week I wrote about how my family gave me trust issues. I briefly wrote about how my experience in brown (or Surinamese-Hindustani) spaces wasn’t a safe one for me. In part because of my messed up Family and the destabilizing formative years. But there’s another layer to it:
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There are many reasons why I have trust issues, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized that I don’t feel safe around my own people, in my own community, and that’s because of Family. I don’t think that’s talked about enough.
Sure, we all know about judgmental aunties... but let me tell you about mine.
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