How to decolonize your mind: Part I 🌍🔥⚔️

How Indigenous Wisdom can help us understand the violent riots across the UK and rethink property, immigration and legal personhood

I remember the moment she said it, and I have to be honest—I laughed.

We were in a packed room full of 75 people at Startup Lisboa, hosting the first ReFi Lisboa event, and a Colombian woman took the microphone and looked straight at everyone and said “Stop owning shit. I challenge every single one of you to decolonize your minds.”

I didn’t laugh because I disagreed, I laughed because her claim seemed so impossible, so far fetched, and yet a part of me felt deep insecurity and discomfort in the presence of the anger and pain seared into the movements of her face. My body could feel the resonance of truth, but it was dripping with guilt and shame.