Invitation to the Dominant Voice
There is a space here for you, even if you are used to being the center of every room. You are welcome here, and there is room for your lived truth and your testimony. But in order to be here, you have to decenter yourself. You have to take in the erasure before you speak. You have to feel the imbalance, the history, the weight of what it has meant for others to live in a world shaped around your comfort. This is not a punishment. It is the beginning of belonging.
This space is not built to cater to you. It is built to hold you — if you are willing to be held. That means you are invited to stop performing, to stop proving, to stop carrying the armor that was handed to you as a birthright. You do not have to be the expert here. You do not have to be the leader. You do not have to be the one who knows. You are allowed to arrive as a human being instead of a role. You are allowed to be tired. You are allowed to be honest.
You are welcome here if you choose to heal. That is the only condition. Healing requires humility, and humility requires listening. It requires sitting with the discomfort of not being centered, not being deferred to, not being the default. It requires recognizing that others have lived entire lives in that position. If you can take that in — not as guilt, not as shame, but as truth — then you are endlessly welcome. You can be part of a community that is learning how to repair what we inherited.
This invitation is not about exclusion. It is about right‑sizing. It is about creating a space where everyone can breathe, including you. If you are willing to step into a circle instead of a spotlight, if you are willing to participate instead of dominate, if you are willing to be part of something larger than yourself, then come in. There is a place for you here — not above, not ahead, but alongside.
Survivor Literacy 
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