ABSTRACT
This chapter takes up the central concern of critical heritage scholars, and of heritage practitioners, about the need for structural changes to bring about the post-nation Stuart Hall envisioned. It asks and challenges readers to consider what contributions they might make to truly decolonise – within their own actions – and to actually live the equality that chapter authors have called for. The author, a mixed-race woman whose work, writing and activism focus on ending violence against women and girls, looks at the micro and macro scales of her own heritage questioning and the social actions that have brought about some institutional changes, referencing strategic activism and the United Nations’ CEDAW feedback model as tools to assess and enact change from an intersectional women-centric, Black-centric viewpoint.
