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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Koh Phi Phi Series No. 5: We Hit Turbulence
The last entry about my trip to the south will be on what happened to me at the very beginning of my travels. Well, nothing much happened, but it still sparked some thoughts that I can now share with you. If I was sharing my stories of almost dying of cardio in Laos, I think
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Koh Phi Phi Series No. 4: Nothing to Fear But The Blog Itself
Like a truly brilliant writer, I wanted to start this entry with a quote. After ten minutes of trying to choose the quote out of tens of potential ones, I admit I might not be a great writer. But I still want to tell you a story. It was January 1st, I was sitting a
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Koh Phi Phi Series No. 3: A Single View On Dichotomies
I am tempted to make this entry political and expand on how much, to my mind, any sort of dichotomy is a social construct that often serves to marginalise groups by making us except a division that does not necessarily has to be there. Minority-majority, straight-LGBT, moral (because legal) – immoral (because illegal), and so
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Koh Phi Phi Series No. 2: On Diving (a hypocritical title)
My jaw dropped – though no-one around seemed to have had the same reaction – when one of the main speakers of the graduation weekend in my college attempted to inspire the students by saying something like this (I am paraphrasing, though it is close): ‘Always write down your goals. Think about them and write
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Koh Phi Phi Series No. 1: On Languages
While my colleagues were singing karaoke at the Christmas staff party, I was sleeping at the Phuket airport. And before I took that night nap I was looking at a bunch of fliers that I inevitably received with a free map. Half of those brochures were in Russian so I decided to amuse myself and
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A Chapter on Chapters
A friend of mine recently updated his facebook status by saying he is about to leave Asia and go to South America, where a new chapter is awaiting. A new chapter in life? A new chapter of his travels? I’ll be honest with you – I simply forgot his exact words and I’m too lazy
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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