PURPLE PAPER SERIES
AUTHORED BY KARLYN PERCIL-MERCIECA
PURPLE PAPER SERIES VOLUME ONE
WOMEN AS FUTURE ANCESTORS & THE MYTH OF WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
THE 13 WAFA PRINCIPLES
Practices of Trust for Women as Future Ancestors
KDPM Equity Institute | SisterTalk Group
These principles represent our collective commitment to moving beyond the betrayal box—that space where 37% of women identify self-betrayal as their deepest wound—toward what we call WAFA (Women as Future Ancestors).
They are not aspirational ideals but living practices to be woven daily in our garden of sisterhood, creating the trust systems that allow us to build on inherited soil—the cultural intelligence passed down through our lineages.
The work is not to get this right. The work is to stay in practice.
These principles, philosophies, collections and practices emerge from 15+ years of documented SisterTalk research, the wisdom of Lokono and Kalinago ancestors, Dagara elemental intelligence, Black feminist scholarship, and the lived experiences of thousands of women navigating sisterhood as both wound and healing.
KDPM Equity Institute | SisterTalk Group Collective
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