PHOENIX RISING — LESSON 2: INHERITED SCRIPTS OF OPPRESSION
Ava's Narration Transcript
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My grandmother never raised her voice in public. Not once. She carried herself with a quiet dignity that everyone admired. But I have come to understand that her silence was not peace. It was survival.

She learned, as so many of us did, that to be visible was to be vulnerable. To speak was to risk. To feel was to fracture.

These are the scripts we inherit. Not through words, but through watching. Through the way a parent stiffens when the doorbell rings. Through the way a colleague changes their voice on the telephone. Through the rules no one writes down but everyone follows.

Today, you will begin to excavate your own inherited scripts. Not to judge them. They kept people alive. But to ask: does this script still serve liberation, or does it serve silence?

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Phoenix Rising Anti-Racism Leadership Programme
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