For humans on the journey of Love and Liberation
Hi, I’m Idelette. (Pronounced: Ee-da-lette) I live, play, dance, make bread and write on the unceded territories of the Kwantlen, Semiahmoo and Sto:lo peoples in Surrey, Canada. I am the author of “Recovering Racists: Dismantling White Supremacy and Reclaiming Our Humanity.” (Releasing April 12, 2022.)
I was born and raised in South Africa during the apartheid era. When I was 16, I read a book that cracked open that all-white world and shattered so many of my belief systems. I’ve spent my life ever since leaving the construct of whiteness, unlearning so much of what I had internalized and learning a new way of being human.
In 1995, my journey took me to Taipei, Taiwan where I worked as a reporter. Then, in 1999, I moved from Taiwan to Canada, after falling in love with Scott. Now we have 3 teenagers, two dogs and a restaurant.
I am also the founder of SheLoves Media Society and the Dangerous Women community. One of my great joys is hosting our weekly “Liberation Hour” for Dangerous Women.
I love Jesus, justice and living juicy.
Love liberates us.
We all belong in the circle of humanity. But we don’t get to walk in bringing old, domineering, oppressive ways. We have to show that we are committed to a different world—a world in which love is the essence and justice flows like a river.
Maya Angelou said, Love liberates.
My journey started in South Africa, took me to Taiwan and now Canada. I didn’t know when I longed for liberation that it would first take me right back to where I was born.
Love has liberated me and keeps liberating me.
I have learned that my liberation has always been connected to the liberation of others.
It all starts with Love.
When I first heard the call of Love and Liberation, I was a young girl, looking up from the backseat of our Opel Monza out into the darkness of the Stellenbosch mountains. I had a sense even then that the world I was longing for, was not small, white and exclusive, but expansive, loving, and brimming with all of humanity. It was so different from the story so many people around me believed. Finding a more beautiful way, has been my quest. I have been relentless in my pursuit, crossing continents, reading for clues and keys, going to places of pain and injustice and looking for the sacred in each person I encounter.
Love liberates.
I not only believe it; I know it.
It is the story of my life.