EWN | Eyewitness News
When young black women are equipped earlier in life to work on mastering who they are, they can understand the source of their beliefs and recognise how their past experiences continue to influence their present.
A few years ago, a young woman, a geographer, wrote a post on social media about the psychological impact that space and place have on black people.
She reflected on how even as apartheid has been abolished, spaces that are still white dominated create a sense of alienation for black people and communicate a silent message that they do not belong.
I immediately understood what this meant, for, as a black woman who qualified as a town planner in South Africa in the early 1980s, I have an appreciation of the socio-spatial dialectic that shapes how people interact with space. But to read this from a young person who was born in the democratic dispensation was revealing and has been a point of reflection for me in the work that I do as the founder of Traversing Liminality.
