A small excerpt from Cobalt Red.
I’ve never used the word ‘subhuman’ to describe anything. Reading this I felt like not ever having experienced or seen something ‘subhuman’ is a privilege. It is a privilege to be reading a book about cobalt mining and using a smartphone (which probably has cobalt from #congo ) to post about it on #mastodon.
#bookstodon #miningindustry #humanrights #books #readingcommunity

After finishing two wonderful books, I have started #reading Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara today.
China’s infrastructure-for-resources arrangements with African countries are truly abominable. This is #neocolonialism at its best, making sure that #africa remains in the stone ages while supplying minerals that make sure every person on every other continent, besides Africa, drives an EV and uses a smartphone.
#humanrights #cobaltmining #mining #humanrightsviolations #bookstodon #books

Back home from work and my sister is lounging in her room, unwinding with her favourite activity, online browsing on
#amazon . Like we don’t have enough shit already. At this point, she needs to shop for a small apartment to just store all the stuff she buys.
#onlineshopping and #socialmedia have truly ruined this planet in more ways than one.
#waste #consumerism #SoMuchShit

I finished #reading Safiya Sinclair’s How To Say Bablyon yesterday and I’m still thinking about it today.
This book is precious. #religion can wreak havoc in families, scarring and fracturing them but I never thought it could happen in a peaceful Rastafari home. Books are the best way to open shut eyes.
Sinclair also talks about reading the dictionary and ofcourse I am going to start doing that! Her writing is lyrical and every sentence is stitched beautifully!
#bookreview #books #feminism

Finished reading this excellent book and now I’m full of angry opinions and obnoxious facts and hoping for some silly little boy to come pick up a fight with me so I can angrily point fingers and brandish my arms and scream into his face those opinions and facts. #books #feminism #bookreview

So this is might be a controversial opinion but #depression is for the privileged. A person who is stuck at a frustrating job but keeps going because they are the sole earner in a family of five cannot afford depression. Even when they are depressed, it is probably the least of their problems and treatment is something they won’t even dream of.
It makes me sad thinking that even sadness comes with a price tag of time and money.

Today an issue came up at work. A woman with a two year old asked to be excused from the induction prog which is in a different city.
As we were discussing alternatives, I wondered why only women were responsible for child rearing. And if #women are then why aren’t workplaces more accomodating of these responsibilities. #feminism is not just #equalpay . It is also acknowledging the different needs of women and not letting them turn into disadvantages or reasons to not hire them for a job.

It’s unfortunate that even today this needs to be reiterated but ALL WOMEN NEED TO WORK. You need to work so you can pay your own bills, rent your own apartment (rather buy because property in your own name is even better), and enjoy your independence on your own terms. When a woman earns, she need not listen to any man in her life. Not because men are wrong but would you really want to ask any man for money for buying underwear or tampons?
#Money is power so work and earn it bitches!
#feminism

Today is one of those days where I gotta channel my dad’s side of me more than my mom’s side of me.

I think idealistic principles are for the privileged. People whose needs are satisfied are the only ones who can afford to talk about morality and debate on what is right and wrong. People who are hungry or homeless or those who are responsible for feeding and educating someone else, are too busy earning money to be able to ponder on the righteousness of how they earn that money.