We all live on one round rock. — I feel very privileged to have roots in the place where I am from. I am eager to claim my heritage, even though I know some people in the “first world” might be confused as to why. I’ve alluded to this a few times in my blog posts, but my…

a brutally honest story of COVID isolation — I wake up in the morning to the sound of the street cleaning machine, blaring at everyone to move their cars. I am achey and fatigued and congested. This is my first full day in isolation. I grab a yogurt from the cooler in one corner of my room and…

Do English-speakers hear it? — In a day and age where everything seems Google-able, still a large swath of information remains completely off the grid. Much of that “missing” information is about ethnic minorities. I don’t mean to say today whether this is a good or a bad thing, simply that this is currently true…

charting a path through despair — Content Note: this post does contain some mentions of suicidal-adjacent thoughts, I think in a way that’s ultimately uplifting, but nonetheless. Skip if it’s not for you today. It has been long and difficult, the hell of the last two years. Like many people, I feel that my emotional and…

Capitalism isn’t markets — it’s interest. — Read “Graeber Explained: A Series”, where I introduce this series and its main concepts, here. I am not, generally, a scholar of many different kinds of political economies or kinds of social structures. I engage in discourse online and am a person in the world, in society, but this series…

I’ve struggled with writing as often in part because my medium used to be reserved for my more “polished” content, but now that I no longer have other blogs (tumblr or wordpress) and because I’ve accepted I’m not really trying to monetize this platform, I’ve just decided to put everything…

A rant about diet culture and size discrimination — If you haven’t seen the light yet, this post is not for you. If you still do not know or fully believe that: Sustained, significant weight loss is outright unachievable by the vast (like, 90%) majority of people who attempt it Yo-yo dieting and restrictive diets can potentially harm your…

The story of how money came to be. — Read “Graeber Explained: A Series”, where I introduce this series and its main concepts, here. What is money? Especially now, that money is no longer backed by gold or any real, concrete substance? This question is both easy and difficult to answer. The easy answer is that money is the…

A series of articles explaining Debt by David Graeber — I recently read Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber for the first time. For me, it was transformative. I felt that I finally understood what “the economy” was and the systems that uphold it, and this came down to understanding the central lie of economic theory. The central…