It is dangerous to teach by example, a generation of young people, to physically and through concerted organising, to stand up against anything.
We lost that as a country in 1987 and it continues through today.
I’m now interested in young Fijians at the ballot box in 2022.
In 2015, I taught at the University of #Cenderawasih in #WestPapua.
Activists would hold protests, the police would come and then the military... We would have to cancel classes.
This has been happening for years... #FijiFirst is driving @UniSouthPacific down a #SlipperySlope.
she wasn���t changing.
she was healing.
knowing she is better
than what they told
her she could be.
knowing that if she
loses herself, there
is nothing left to lose.
she’s looking to rise,
to become her better self.
she knows her worth.
she wasn’t changing,
she was becoming.