Yvener DuroseauThere are questions every colonized society is taught not to ask. They are not forbidden by law, but by fear. They live beneath the surface of polite conversation, beneath tradition, beneath reverence. And yet, they shape everything.
Yvener DuroseauColonization did not only wound bodies and nations—it fractured psyches. It introduced violence so normalized that suffering became invisible. Generations were taught not to process pain, but to endure it. Not to examine trauma, but to sanctify it.
Yvener DuroseauFor a long time, I believed that freedom was something granted by circumstance—by laws, by borders, by political change. I believed that once a people gained independence, the work of liberation was complete. History, however, tells a different story. So does lived experience. Colonization did not end when the flags came down. It adapted. It moved quietly into classrooms, churches, languages, and traditions. It learned how to live in the mind.