Dealing with internalised stigma | Edwin Cameron | TEDxEuston

When Human rights activist and former Justice, Edwin Cameron, publicly disclosed his HIV positive status, he says "worse than the sense of the death sentence of HIV, was my sense of shame". In a talk that is as poignant and vulnerable as necessary, he focuses on his experiences reconciling the injustice of external discrimination with his internal values, showing us how shame still exists in the epidemic of HIV in the African continent. Edwin Cameron was a Justice of South Africa’s highest court, the Constitutional Court, for ten years until the 20 August 2019, and was appointed by President Mandela as a judge in 1994. Before the Constitutional Court, he was in the Supreme Court of Appeal for eight years, and in the High Court for six. He was educated at Pretoria Boys’ High School, Stellenbosch and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

[Asongfromme]

This was extremely moving as well as conferring strength to others, oppressed in more forms and internalisations. Thank you

[haroldmaio]

Persuading one to internalize a stigma, i.e., direct a prejudice against oneself, is a commonly practiced technique. Sometimes it is successful. Sometimes it is not.

[RedemptiveChief]

what apowerful and moving talk by judge Cameron