Dr. Aparajita, PhD
@drajpsych.bsky.social
Learn Telugu with me. https://linktr.ee/drajjeedigunta
Gamer. Social Psychologist. Anti-Colonial Leadership Consultant
Lycan gone feral. My bite is worse than my howl.
I ❤️ to cook.
Gamer. Social Psychologist. Anti-Colonial Leadership Consultant
Lycan gone feral. My bite is worse than my howl.
I ❤️ to cook.
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Dr. Aparajita, PhD
@drajpsych.bsky.social
· Apr 10
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🎓 Weekly live support | Spoken Telugu | Cultural depth
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Question for Telugu folks: where can I find good historical visual assets that I can use without copyright issues? Do you know any sources. Please help.
August 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Question for Telugu folks: where can I find good historical visual assets that I can use without copyright issues? Do you know any sources. Please help.
Hello bsky! Been a while!
July 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Hello bsky! Been a while!
Are there genetic tests out there that breakdown the different markers in Desi people? Like between Dravidian and Aryan etc etc. I am curious but don’t have the time to research this only to find out the answer is “no”.
July 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Are there genetic tests out there that breakdown the different markers in Desi people? Like between Dravidian and Aryan etc etc. I am curious but don’t have the time to research this only to find out the answer is “no”.
I admit. I have a plant addiction. Now I need to figure out where all these beauties will be homed for the next few weeks while the foundation of the yard and soil gets fixed and redone.
June 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I admit. I have a plant addiction. Now I need to figure out where all these beauties will be homed for the next few weeks while the foundation of the yard and soil gets fixed and redone.
I just realized something. If the smallest cuts in cdramas and kdramas make people unattractive… I would be utterly hideous by those standards from all the scars on my body. All the testaments to my survival.
Good thing I don’t prescribe to those standards 🤓😂
Good thing I don’t prescribe to those standards 🤓😂
June 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I just realized something. If the smallest cuts in cdramas and kdramas make people unattractive… I would be utterly hideous by those standards from all the scars on my body. All the testaments to my survival.
Good thing I don’t prescribe to those standards 🤓😂
Good thing I don’t prescribe to those standards 🤓😂
Omg hello yall! I’m alive
June 6, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Omg hello yall! I’m alive
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May 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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May 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Did you know: When anyone is offed, they have to spit out blood. NO MATTER WHAT. C-dramas taught me this.
Here’s where I’m confused. How does a knife wound in the knee or ankle or arm or something cause death by blood spitting?
And yes, there are more important issues to talk about etc etc.
Here’s where I’m confused. How does a knife wound in the knee or ankle or arm or something cause death by blood spitting?
And yes, there are more important issues to talk about etc etc.
May 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Did you know: When anyone is offed, they have to spit out blood. NO MATTER WHAT. C-dramas taught me this.
Here’s where I’m confused. How does a knife wound in the knee or ankle or arm or something cause death by blood spitting?
And yes, there are more important issues to talk about etc etc.
Here’s where I’m confused. How does a knife wound in the knee or ankle or arm or something cause death by blood spitting?
And yes, there are more important issues to talk about etc etc.
For 2 weeks I have come up to bed at night to see my child sprawled diagonally across my queen sized bed. No Fs given. Note to that French guy with the viral video about dating women. She’s 9. And it’s already happening. Just FYI.
Side note: taking ideas on how to get my bed back for myself.
Side note: taking ideas on how to get my bed back for myself.
May 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
For 2 weeks I have come up to bed at night to see my child sprawled diagonally across my queen sized bed. No Fs given. Note to that French guy with the viral video about dating women. She’s 9. And it’s already happening. Just FYI.
Side note: taking ideas on how to get my bed back for myself.
Side note: taking ideas on how to get my bed back for myself.
Black dandyism was the assignment. South Asian celebs missed it. A critique of complicity, spectacle, and absence.https://medium.com/@aj.jeedigunta/black-dandyism-was-the-assignment-south-asian-celebs-missed-it-59878cd364d5
May 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Black dandyism was the assignment. South Asian celebs missed it. A critique of complicity, spectacle, and absence.https://medium.com/@aj.jeedigunta/black-dandyism-was-the-assignment-south-asian-celebs-missed-it-59878cd364d5
Inherited silence isn’t ours to carry. We are the generation that names it—and breaks it open. New essay out now.
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
Inherited Silence: How We Break the Curses That Tried to Silence Us
Colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism taught us to survive by shrinking. Reindigenization and cultural recovery teach us how to live…
medium.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Inherited silence isn’t ours to carry. We are the generation that names it—and breaks it open. New essay out now.
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
Day 12 of trying to function through a raging migraine…
I’ve given up on things like how many shoes the dogs have chewed on and why they like to pee in the corner of my office.
Instead, I now ask them to do this stuff when I have the energy to respond.
I’ve given up on things like how many shoes the dogs have chewed on and why they like to pee in the corner of my office.
Instead, I now ask them to do this stuff when I have the energy to respond.
April 29, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Day 12 of trying to function through a raging migraine…
I’ve given up on things like how many shoes the dogs have chewed on and why they like to pee in the corner of my office.
Instead, I now ask them to do this stuff when I have the energy to respond.
I’ve given up on things like how many shoes the dogs have chewed on and why they like to pee in the corner of my office.
Instead, I now ask them to do this stuff when I have the energy to respond.
Had a really interesting question come up in class today about why “it/that” (అది ) and she (అది ) are the same. Admittedly, this stumped me. Anyone know?
April 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Had a really interesting question come up in class today about why “it/that” (అది ) and she (అది ) are the same. Admittedly, this stumped me. Anyone know?
Taking a day off before I get to burnout… progress.
Now will I actually get the rest I need? TBD
Now will I actually get the rest I need? TBD
April 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Taking a day off before I get to burnout… progress.
Now will I actually get the rest I need? TBD
Now will I actually get the rest I need? TBD
I needed to say these words. For the sake of my inner child and my current real life living, breathing, outer one.
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
This Is Not an Apology Anymore
An updated letter to my daughter about the harm still happening in real time.
medium.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I needed to say these words. For the sake of my inner child and my current real life living, breathing, outer one.
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
South Asian spaces love to say “you’re welcome here.” But are we ever really in the room?
New piece on gatekeeping & power. Paywalled to protect my peace.
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
New piece on gatekeeping & power. Paywalled to protect my peace.
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
Forget a Seat at the Table — We’re Not Even in the Room
How gatekeeping and polite exclusion are shaping the future of South Asian community spaces
medium.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
South Asian spaces love to say “you’re welcome here.” But are we ever really in the room?
New piece on gatekeeping & power. Paywalled to protect my peace.
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
New piece on gatekeeping & power. Paywalled to protect my peace.
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
I think my life is not complicated enough. I think I need a husky. 🙃🤭🤣
April 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I think my life is not complicated enough. I think I need a husky. 🙃🤭🤣
Telugu love isn’t “I love you.”
It’s so much more.
This post is about language, film, and why I built my course.
🫶🏽 Let’s relearn what we were always meant to say. If it resonates, share the piece. Share the love.
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
It’s so much more.
This post is about language, film, and why I built my course.
🫶🏽 Let’s relearn what we were always meant to say. If it resonates, share the piece. Share the love.
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
The Language of Love in Telugu: Reindigenizing Feeling Through Words and Film
Reindigenizing the language of feeling through film, family, and emotional fluency
medium.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Telugu love isn’t “I love you.”
It’s so much more.
This post is about language, film, and why I built my course.
🫶🏽 Let’s relearn what we were always meant to say. If it resonates, share the piece. Share the love.
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
It’s so much more.
This post is about language, film, and why I built my course.
🫶🏽 Let’s relearn what we were always meant to say. If it resonates, share the piece. Share the love.
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
Fuck anyone who tries to minimize the lives of disabled people. That is all. That’s the whole message. Good night.
April 17, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Fuck anyone who tries to minimize the lives of disabled people. That is all. That’s the whole message. Good night.
It is deeply frustrating that I have to continue to engage with and on Meta platforms because this has become the only way TO build my organic community.
This forced choice stuff is 🤮 but until I can get to a point where I don’t need these platforms to help me build what I am, I’ll be here
This forced choice stuff is 🤮 but until I can get to a point where I don’t need these platforms to help me build what I am, I’ll be here
April 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It is deeply frustrating that I have to continue to engage with and on Meta platforms because this has become the only way TO build my organic community.
This forced choice stuff is 🤮 but until I can get to a point where I don’t need these platforms to help me build what I am, I’ll be here
This forced choice stuff is 🤮 but until I can get to a point where I don’t need these platforms to help me build what I am, I’ll be here
You didn’t “miss your chance” to learn Telugu. You were just never given a proper one.
And no, fluency is not the goal.
Reclamation is.
This one’s for the diaspora kids, the intercultural fam, the late bloomers
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
And no, fluency is not the goal.
Reclamation is.
This one’s for the diaspora kids, the intercultural fam, the late bloomers
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
You’re Not Too Late: Reclaiming Telugu as an Adult Learner
“I wish something like this existed 15 or 20 years ago when my grandmother was still alive. I would’ve loved to talk to her properly.”
—…
medium.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
You didn’t “miss your chance” to learn Telugu. You were just never given a proper one.
And no, fluency is not the goal.
Reclamation is.
This one’s for the diaspora kids, the intercultural fam, the late bloomers
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
And no, fluency is not the goal.
Reclamation is.
This one’s for the diaspora kids, the intercultural fam, the late bloomers
medium.com/@aj.jeedigun...
How much did it cost to send 6 women into space for 10 mins 21 seconds?
How many hundreds of thousands of women in the US could have gotten at least some healthcare needs met for that price?
How many survivors in Gaza could have been helped?
Why are folks celebrating this privilege flex again?
How many hundreds of thousands of women in the US could have gotten at least some healthcare needs met for that price?
How many survivors in Gaza could have been helped?
Why are folks celebrating this privilege flex again?
April 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
How much did it cost to send 6 women into space for 10 mins 21 seconds?
How many hundreds of thousands of women in the US could have gotten at least some healthcare needs met for that price?
How many survivors in Gaza could have been helped?
Why are folks celebrating this privilege flex again?
How many hundreds of thousands of women in the US could have gotten at least some healthcare needs met for that price?
How many survivors in Gaza could have been helped?
Why are folks celebrating this privilege flex again?
Can scopes go through compacted 💩in colonoscopies? Genuinely curious.
April 14, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Can scopes go through compacted 💩in colonoscopies? Genuinely curious.
Cutest thing I ever experienced:
My baby girl in her sleep: ayyayyo… alaa kadu.
🥹
This is why I push for Telugu and heritage languages 😍🥰☺️
My baby girl in her sleep: ayyayyo… alaa kadu.
🥹
This is why I push for Telugu and heritage languages 😍🥰☺️
April 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Cutest thing I ever experienced:
My baby girl in her sleep: ayyayyo… alaa kadu.
🥹
This is why I push for Telugu and heritage languages 😍🥰☺️
My baby girl in her sleep: ayyayyo… alaa kadu.
🥹
This is why I push for Telugu and heritage languages 😍🥰☺️