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  • Ramya at TJ's balcony watching sunrise
    City | Map Of Emotion

    Chasing Sunrises

    May 26, 2020August 28, 2023
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    I went looking for sunrises years ago. What I found instead was so much beauty and joy in the mayhem.

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  • Room: Emma Donoghue
    Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Feminine Strength In The Room

    May 25, 2020July 16, 2023
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    I read ‘Room’ and ‘See What You Made Me Do’ to understand why men hurt women. They were triggering but they helped me find strength.

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  Recuperate
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    Recuperate

    May 21, 2020August 14, 2023
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    RECUPERATE – For the ones dealing with long-buried memories and healing from old wounds

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  • Ramya speaking, wearing blue lipstick.
    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Hate Speech

    May 19, 2020February 25, 2025
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    Disappointment is such a hard teacher but its lessons are so deep. We just need to navigate away from the ease of hate.

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  Making Peace With Privilege
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    Making Peace With Privilege

    May 15, 2020February 25, 2025
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    Privilege Guilt is the helplessness of having something one did not earn. But your self-flagellation doesn’t actually make heal a sick person.

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  • Aunty National dressing
    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

    Dressing As Protest & The Violence Of Fashion Judgement

    May 13, 2020December 29, 2023
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    What is it about our dressing that incites such violent responses in other people? Do we find it ourselves in response to other fashion rebellion?

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  • Piet Mondrian saree
    Map Of Emotion

    TOXIC

    May 13, 2020August 14, 2023
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    The word ‘toxic’ has become a slur to use to attack, rather than a tool to reflect on what one needs.

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  Twenty-Twenty Vision
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    Twenty-Twenty Vision

    May 4, 2020September 16, 2023
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    I wrote this post at the start of this year, having hit 40 and mistaking midlife crisis for twenty twenty vision. What a year 2020 turned out to be.

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  Different Shades of Grief
    Body & Sex | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture | Relationships

    Different Shades of Grief

    May 3, 2020July 16, 2023
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    In how many ways shall I experience grief? I watched THAPPAD and thought about all the people who have hit me. In plural

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  Pockets of Courage
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    Pockets of Courage

    May 1, 2020March 23, 2023
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    Inside my pockets, I keep pieces of courage, to reach for when I need them. See, life has become an unpredictable horizon strewn with landmines called memories. An accidental sighting and unfortunate coincidences. We’re so connected, we’re entrenched seamless and a chance encounter, becomes an obituary. Memory, that unreliable narrator…

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  • 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…”
  • IdeaSmith on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “@XXfan: Yes, it appears to be a legal requirement for the hospital to show the removed parts to kin, probably…”
  • Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”

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