Published inFractaLife·Apr 30, 2020You are a beautiful piece of rock!A place wakes up A piece of rock is somewhere, it knows. It found itself awake “I am but where am I?” it asks “Am I the place I seek?” it wonders “Am I home?” “Where is home?” “Should I be elsewhere?” It knows it is a place But it does not know its place It knows it is material, physical Open to be touched by other material Two rocks touch, sometimes three Objects interact, sometimes collide Bodies collidePoetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published inFractaLife·Jan 19, 2020The Significance of Our Shared InsignificanceARE WE INSIGNIFICANT? Speaking as a nihilist and a non-believer, my search for meaning is never focused at imaginary beings but in a universal understanding of existence. In this, a challenge I often face — which my other existential friends share with me as well — is the feeling of insignificance living in…Space6 min readSpace6 min read
Published inBeyond Coloniality·Oct 28, 2019UnbecomingDealing with Your Colonized Mind One of the quotes from Fanon that Tuck and Yang start their article “Decolonizing is not a metaphor” is: Let us admit it, the settler knows perfectly well that no phraseology can be a substitute for reality. -Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1963, p. 45 I think this…Racism5 min readRacism5 min read
Published inBeyond Coloniality·Oct 28, 20193 Ps of Coping with DepressionI was diagnosed (officially) about 3 years ago but I think I have been struggling since I remember my first memories. With usual ebbs and flows, I have reached a point, where I am aware I cannot get rid of it, but I have to learn to live with it…Depression3 min readDepression3 min read
