What we can focus on with decolonization is stopping the cycles of abuse and healing ourselves from trauma. In this way we expand our possibilities for the future. We must heal ourselves by each taking responsibility for our part in creating or maintaining the colonial virus. We must identify and reject the colonized aspects of our culture and our institutions so that we can heal. In healing we eradicate the colonizer virus from society: instead of divide, control, exploit, we embrace a new paradigm of connect, relate, belong.
