Selfhood

In our modern world, we’re often pressured to deliver high-quality work with speed and efficiency. However, in our quest to meet these expectations, we may lose sight of the larger context and the ultimate goal of our work. When we prioritize doing the job right, we focus on executing tasks…

Prince Shakur and Jordan Mays sit down and talk about getting into anti-capitalist politics, organizing and writing. Listen on Substack Late 2022 I sat down with Ohio raised journalist, activist and recent memoir author Prince Shakur. We talked about their writing, life and introduction to politics. …

Exactly 20 years ago, the pioneers of social media platforms — chief being Friendster and MySpace — were launched. With the advent of Facebook, the rest is history. Within a short span, social media has successfully altered the world completely, for better or for worse. What started off as a…

Diet, exercise, and rest matter. But without self-care for your selfhood, you’ll fade. Your uniqueness is valuable. It is worth protecting, developing, and investing in. — You’ve heard it all: eat right, exercise, get enough sleep, pamper yourself. Each of the recommendations serves its purpose: stay in shape. I agree. But is it enough? How about protecting, developing, and nourishing your selfhood?

By Jinie Chon, Undergraduate at the University of Washington SEPTEMBER 19, 2022 | 8:30 PM Derived from theories of structuralism and semiotics, the scholarship of narratology is a relatively new field that has been rapidly growing within the past few decades. Narrative inquirers, critical scholars, and theorists have sought to…

Man begins to lose the cherished selfhood. — It is not existence itself that makes a man embarrassing. It is self-awareness and the growing consciousness of who he is: Being insatiable, constantly in-need, desperately dependent. What sets a man truly wretched is his detachment from the supplies of his being: God or world. Man, at first, to protect…

Pondering Storms from the Private Journey of Self Ghosting, at the end of a relationship, is a cowardly act from those who choose the world of vulgar eyes. These reprehensible individuals are unworthy of nostalgia. …

(Written: March 27, 2018) A few years ago, I endured the darkest days of my life. I never imagined in my entire existence that I’d experience being in that kind of state. I fell into depression. Nobody really knew what was happening except for one of my best friends who…

Self care, mental health, body image, gender identity… All these contemporary buzzwords and social concerns point to a certain deepening of subjectivity, an existential awareness of one’s own experience of one’s self, one’s valuation of the qualities of personal experience. Great! I firmly believe greater awareness along these lines is…