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Monday, 18 March 2019

After the Christchurch massacre, how do we deal with the trauma and outrage? | Sara Mansour

When someone makes an inappropriate joke, or when a senator makes incendiary remarks, speak up

When I walked into work on Monday I told myself I was going to be strong. Then an Indigenous colleague pulled me aside and hugged me and I crumbled in her arms. She told me that the Indigenous community was so sorry for what has happened to our community, and we talked and cried. I, like many other Muslims, have felt the pain of the Christchurch mosque massacre so viscerally.

I was so shaken that I did not step out at all over the weekend.

Related: Until Christchurch I thought it was worth debating with Islamophobes. Not any more | Nesrine Malik

If this is not the Australia that we know, then we have to prove it.

Sara Mansour is a lawyer, poet and the co-founder and director of the Bankstown Poetry Slam

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