IT TOOK ME YEARS TO UNDERSTAND:
Collective liberation has many perspectives.
Only doing the inner work – separately, in our atomic households – won’t be enough.
We need community. We need connection. We need to take various collective actions to fight oppression where we see it.
But there’s that inner work, too. Profound. Slow. Rarely easy. Never comfortable.
But always always always worth it.
As a political commentator who talks about different forms and systems of external oppression, I’m also interested in my own personal transformation. In this platform, I share with you tools, frameworks, authors, and anything of value I have found to lead a life of authenticity.
Imperfectly, yes – but to do it any way.
LATEST POSTS
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India! Varanasi: How My Coolness Was Lost (and a little bit about burning bodies)
In every other country, no matter how hectic its markets were, busy its traffic was, and intensely-observing its people appeared, I thought that I still managed to keep my face on. The face that – as I imagined it – revealed the sort of “yeah yeah, I’m a foreigner, but everything’s fine, I’m chill” attitude.…
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We Don’t Need No
I’ll start this entry with an insignificant confession: I am already home, writing this at my kitchen while simultaneously innocently stalking my neighbours and eating a sweet curd product that doesn’t have a translation: google sūrelis and maybe you’ll get something comprehensible. In other words, I’m not in Thailand anymore, however, I do want to…
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Cognitive Consulate Consistency
What’s wrong with people working in consulates? An alternative question: what the hell? If you remember my very first entry (which is still accessible for any passionate reader, hint hint), I was telling you how much shocked and appalled I was with what a woman working in the Thai consulate in Lithuania told me during…
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Bangkok and Hua Hin: Disregard The Title
My last days in Thailand were some of the best I’ve had in Southeast Asia. After a fun night saying goodbye to my friends in Chiang Mai, I spent six days in Bangkok with a two-day beach escape in Hua Hin. Yet as I am typing the names of these places one thought keeps on…
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Isaan: What You Do When You Don’t Do Anything
For the ones secretly hoping that my writings will one day turn into a proper travelblog – please use our beloved Wikipedia or Wikitravel and see for yourselves what Isaan is. For me, it is a region in Thailand a 12-hour bus ride away from Chiang Mai, and a place where I recently went to visit…
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The Pyramid of Coolness
If there’s one good day for me to blog about this, it is today. (“Today”, conveniently, will be whatever day you’re reading this) It is Valentine’s Day and no matter if you want it or not, you’re sort of forced (although you deny that in public) to stop for a moment and dwell on your…
MORE ABOUT ME
My name is Justina, nice to see you here.
I’m a political commentator, travel, language, and pet enthusiast, an educator, and someone who has a deep desire to share valuable resources with others.
Because I know too well what it means to not be living out of your values: not to speak out, not to bring your full you to work, and not to do what’s truly meaningful to you. I’ve been there myself and I know what it does to your soul.
If you’re there, I want to help YOU to leave by sharing different tools and frameworks ❤️
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