Aug 25This was supposed to be about intergenerational healingInstead, it’s a weird love letter to my generation This was written as part of a self-developed 1000 words per week 5 week challenge. This is Week 1. I was born in 1987. By the reckoning of the arbitrary generational separations dictated by a primarily Anglo-American hegemonic media and meaning-production…6 min read6 min read
Jul 11Embracing Disability Pride MonthOr Disability Wrath Month. I… think I’m coming to terms with the fact that I’m not just neurodivergent, I’m disabled. I have no formal diagnoses; as a high-masking, brown, woman-presenting person in the Global South, I have a lovely circle of friends, a happy marriage, and a fairly boring-looking family life. …Disability3 min readDisability3 min read
Feb 27Blogging into the void.Content warning: suicide and death. Edited 03 March 2023: My dear friend Hasi is fortunately quite loved. Her buddy Anu created a GoFundMe for her. Please consider donating and/or sharing to your networks Edited 17 March 2023: Hasi’s GoFundMe met its goal! I have removed the link to the URL. Thank you so much to those who contributed, and please: Be kind to one another. body text: I suspect I may lose a friend to suicide soon.Suicide3 min readSuicide3 min read
Dec 8, 2022Can’t Say “No”I feel that much more needs to be said about the inability to refuse. When the only options available to someone is compliance or death (whether that be physical or cultural/societal), the “option” of compliance becomes coercion. Take, for instance, me. I am safe, I am loved, and I am…Capitalism4 min readCapitalism4 min read
Nov 4, 2022“Civilization,” the demonization of small scale subsistence agriculture, and White SupremacyA few weeks ago, the Internet Outrage Machine caught me in its gears. Someone smugly posted about how Cool and Great mankind (i.e., Western Civilization) is, and of course, I have Opinions. I came across it a few weeks ago, and it’s been annoying me ever since. Check it out:Colonialism8 min readColonialism8 min read
Oct 11, 2022Poverty and thingsSo. Update: stuff is getting increasingly dicey. As per usual, here’s the transcript: just reiterating: I don’t want donations or tips. I need job. We live in a capitalist post-industrial dystopia, and I need to keep building my Reputation and/or get something steady. Please direct me towards any possibilities. My…Poverty9 min readPoverty9 min read
Oct 7, 2022Class, money, and surviving in the Global SouthThoughts from a poor little rich girl — Before I start, I’d like to put a lampshade on who I presume my readers to be. You are likely to be someone who is well educated, who is in a comfortable position in your career, but who is hungry to advance. You are probably from either the Global North…11 min read11 min read
Oct 6, 2022On Depression, Privilege, and Fitness to WorkBelow are a series of screenshots of a blog entry newly-30 me wrote in early 2017. What follows are some late 2022 thoughts.Depressio6 min readDepressio6 min read
May 30, 2022Humanning in an inhumane worldNote: A friend suggested that this essay is challenging to digest, and that I could break it down into a minimum of two articles for easier reading. I’d fully intended to do so, but then realized that I’d used up all of my energy just writing this in the first…Climate Catastrophe7 min readClimate Catastrophe7 min read
Mar 17, 2022Co-opting radical justice work for fun and profit(edited to add: Here’s a link to a YouTube video of me reading this article aloud in case you’d prefer to listen rather than read.) So. Today, I received this email:Disenfranchisement5 min readDisenfranchisement5 min read
