Dr. Aparajita, PhD

Exactly!!!

I’m alive. Please love and light… yourself on fire (metaphorically) so you can understand what feeds the fire in me.

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.

Somehow I knew you’d be the one with some answers 🤭

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”.

But also i got parijatam and night queen today. And 2 Jaji. 1 kanakambaram. Mulakkada… medium- long potla. And 3 different jasmine species. In addition to the indigenous plants in the pic. You can’t see the desi ones. They’re in the back.

They’re aliens

Yes. In and around. And they name themselves. And connect me with voices long lost. It’s … strange and weird and eerie.

A trunk full of plants

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 🤓😂

So much to be said about constancy and consistency in a singular phrase

Hello hello! Hiii! Feels so strange coming back. 😅😂

Omg hello yall! I’m alive

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And then there’s the evil expressions and the same maniacal laughters.

Is there like a training school for acting evil that I am unaware of? 🤔

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.

Girlfriend? Of the “pay off to keep their mouth shut” variety aka Stormy special, or a traditional “old fashioned” caveman type that responds to fear?

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.

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

Agreed.

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…

Inherited silence isn’t ours to carry. We are the generation that names it—and breaks it open. New essay out now.
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I’m going to look into this some more but I do remember a Telugu writer/scholar on CH mentioning something about most objects having feminine lingam endings in Telugu unlike other languages.

The default is female 😃.

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.

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

This Is Not an Apology Anymore An updated letter to my daughter about the harm still happening in real time.

I needed to say these words. For the sake of my inner child and my current real life living, breathing, outer one.

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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

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.
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