Yet, academia often feels like an exercise in abstracting liberation--in rationalising pain, theorising suffering,
producing explanations for the sake of explanation itself. I must resist to this. I must remind myself that this work is not about me, today, or the academy. (4/4) #notesfromthedge

Theory can’t be a refuge. It must be struggle--alive, listening, moving with those it honours. Theory isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity.A remedy for despair, a way of remembering freedom. (3/4)

I started my PhD during a pandemic. I’ve lived through decades of austerity, experienced and then witnessed genocides, and watched fascism stroll back into mainstream politics. Among others things. In such a world, thinking feels like a privilege. Writing feels like survival.(2/4)

Yet the thesis concludes: empires ultimately fall as struggles for life-affirming world-making and freedom will always prevail🥁🐉. (4/4)

I began this project in a global pandemic and finished it amid genocide. Its title speaks to the ghostly matters of empire and coloniality haunting the monstrous time we live in. (3/4)

thanks to my family, comrades, friends and colleagues for supporting me in what was the most challenging and transforming experience of my life 😵 (2/4)