TW:
i'm going to start a thread here to archive tweets/videos/images of violence+police brutality from the protests.
please link me to any such cases/sources, thanks.
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Upasana
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student, development studies. interested in information studies, labour and governance. otherwise talking about books, indian hiphop and the sea. mostly shitposting though.
also honestly it's going to be such a shift not to focus on one achievement to another but focus on routines and habits and finding meaning in the ordinary. the change in perspective that's at the other end of the tunnel is terrifying but also perhaps necessary in a way.
i'm going to graduate in half a year and i will resume with all things schooling only after a year at least. in between there's a shot at proper independent adulthood and that's scary. most people talk about adulthood with such drudgery but i'd honestly like to know what went right for you? what's a good thing about being independent, alone(?) and about work?
but for a change it feels good to not know in advance. to completely and properly enjoy figuring things out. to take the risk of being bad at something, to definitely be bad at something. and then to learn. i could live with that.
also cannot help but remember how this time last year the only thing i knew was that i didn't want to do a thesis that was fieldwork driven. and then came january when i realised i couldnt but do fieldwork because that would mean speaking for someone and i couldnt do that. and then understanding that i had changed, as a person and as a student, with my interests and my approaches, become someone new, someone im not entirely comfortable with, someone im still trying to figure out.
today will be my first day of fieldwork. i'm obviously excited, not entirely sure if i'm completely in the zone for it, not sure how i will get there, i have plans to fall back on but my plan A is to play it by ear. today will not be interviews, today will just be getting to know the space, the people, hacking the stories behind the people who hack, digging stories, backgrounds, people; im rambling i know but how else does one get into the zone?
Anupam GuhaSome stuff to ward off ennui and despair for the young leftist. You are not alone and your worries are connected to a red thread of struggles spanning eons.
Today is (probably) a anniversary of a millennia old (recorded) first worker's strike. And it had worked.
This day around 3000 years back, year 29 of the reign of Ramses III, workers of Deir el-Medina conducted the first recorded strike
