Share [your] personal intergenerational stories of [your] forebears who had defied race, culture, gender and power - Pregs Govender

My father used to say the person who writes the story shapes our consciousness. So it’s not just about whose stories get told, but it’s about if you are writing the story yourself, if it’s your story, if it’s your experience, the power of that is enormous. Because our stories have been written for us and they’ve been re-written. And many times we’ve been written out.

We can reclaim ourselves by recognising that love is intrinsic to our being. From it we can invoke the courage to dance with our fear

Without seeing the dignity in those who bear the brunt of gender-based violence, the result will be a narrow focus on the criminal justice system and not the root causes of the problem, and how we have to address this to change the reality of our own country and our world