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  • patchwork
    City | Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Relationships | Roving I

    Patchwork Relationship

    July 14, 2020March 29, 2025
    1 Comment

    All of you homesick for the sickness of love, hating yourself for thinking of an ex, propping yourself on memories of a relationship, wondering if healing will ever be clean. It won’t. It can still be beautiful. Includes a podcast performance.

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  • Ramya reading a book, seated on a mattress on the ground.
    Books | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    My Soulmate Is A Book

    July 7, 2020April 14, 2024
    3 Comments

    My SoulMate Is A Book

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  Lockdown Style for Survival
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Lockdown Style for Survival

    June 30, 2020July 16, 2023
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    Lockdown is on. I’m showing up for it in style.

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  • Vulnerability bait
    Digital World | Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    Vulnerability Bait

    June 25, 2020July 16, 2023
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    Art showcases vulnerability, makes honesty accessible, believable, livable.

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  Make Way For The Flowers
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion

    Make Way For The Flowers

    June 23, 2020February 25, 2025
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    I once sent flowers to a boyfriend. He called me desperate & cheated on me. It was toxic masculinity feeling so threatened by flowers that he felt he had to punish me.

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  Is This Feminism? – Visibility & Erasure
    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Is This Feminism? – Visibility & Erasure

    June 16, 2020February 25, 2025
    2 Comments

    When a group of people say Stop erasing us, they are saying that they exist, they are not abnormal, not deserving of less.

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  Postcards To StorySeekers
    City | Map Of Emotion

    Postcards To StorySeekers

    June 16, 2020February 25, 2025
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    Postcards to #StorySeekers with love from @AlphabetSambar

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  Bon Feminist!
    Politics & Feminism

    Bon Feminist!

    June 15, 2020March 30, 2025
    1 Comment

    I thought about my claim that my feminism eats these guys on toast then realised it was time to diversify my feminist palate.

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  • Ramya and Ray in sarees.
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    A New Solidarity

    June 12, 2020July 16, 2023
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    Solidarity is seen as a quality used to protect wrongdoers from consequences. Everyone is made to participate as a virtue.

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  • Ramya in a saree skirt
    Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

    IWear: The Saree-Skirt

    June 10, 2020February 25, 2025
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    A saree can also be a skirt!

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  • IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “@Harshaman: What a delightful set of throwbacks it was to receive this comment! First, to the days when one would…”
  • Harshaman on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “Which for me means, looking back at the past with a discerning and curatorial eye I had been thinking about…”
  • Neha Kapoor on Unlikeable Women: It’s Okay To Dislike Her, But Respect Her: “You always have such good book recommendations!”
  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”

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