"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything."

I feel like most folks working in development sector needs talk about mental health and therapy. Most are sensitive and hurting. This creates evnironment of mistrust and propagating the hurt further. I have been subjected to so much trauma justified in the name of 'because i was subjected with this'

When will the perpetrators of hate abuse violence bully behaviour leave the systems and the kind,nurturing, honest and sincere stay...Tired of being the one always leaving..!

www.ipsnews.net/2023/09/uns-...

what would it take to reform UN and the likes..? Thinking about this as someone who has worked in large multilateral institutions

“One thing I like about the concept of insecurity is that it gives us a basis for finding commonalities…insecurity encourages us to look sideways and see what we might have in common with people, even if those people have a bit more than us, or even a lot more than us.”

@astra.bsky.social

How 'local' is locally led adaptation? Looking beyond the rhetoric of ‘local’ – what can make climate adaptation planning truly bottom up. I and Arup discuss in the July edition of Climate Tribune, Dhaka.
www.icccad.net/wp-content/u...

I'm seeing a lot of bandwagon jumping blogs/training courses/seminars on for e.g. "ChatGPT in the classroom" encouraging us 'not to be afraid of AI' but so far precisely zero of these are considering the ethics, e.g. what's done with the info we feed it, whose labour we are profiting off etc. hbu?

UN Special Rapporteur Says ‘India Risks Becoming One of the Main Generators of Atrocities'

thewire.in/communalism/...

I talked with brilliant @astra.bsky.social about insecurity: how bad economies create bad feelings, why we should expropriate CEOs for their own wellbeing, what a safe world for all of us looks like.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/capitalism-the-insecurity-machine-a-conversation-with-astra-taylor/

Organisations & Instituions working on public policy, climate change, water access & availability in development sector are more about gate keeping, propogating beuaraucracy, promotions and toxic culture than about working towards vision, and goals or focusing towards values - justice, human rights

where Sakshi and I discuss burden of navigating systems and power imbalance as young administrators, managers, academics, professionals...and share what has worked for us. Has been cathartic to do this..
youtu.be/YDd04f8ZaD8?...

'The best part of anything is the beginning. Or at least that’s what people tell you. Right now you are in the middle of everything. That’s the best part. The ending has a light, too.' ✨

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