Bullying

Mad Men: THE SUMMER MAN – How A Woman Navigates Power

November 4, 2024November 6, 2024

The Mad Men episode ‘The Summer Man’ brings up insights about how each woman navigates power & microggressions in the workplace.

Bullying | Mental health | Pop culture

Bullying Insights In Pop Culture: Harry Potter To Mean Girls

October 28, 2024October 28, 2024

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Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture | Relationships

Bullying Insights In Pop Culture: Harry Potter To Mean Girls

August 22, 2024October 28, 2024

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Pop culture helps me frame how people behave and who I become. I found some notable insights on bullying in Harry Potter & Mean Girls.

Books | City | Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism

Christmas In My 40s: Navigating Yuletide In A Desi Identity

December 25, 2023December 26, 2023

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Christmas is complex for me. It’s a journey through painful nostalgia, colonised history, the morality of forgivness & questioning where I really belong.

Map Of Emotion | Pop Culture

Healing In A Time Of Hate (And Hate Activism)

March 16, 2021April 23, 2023

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I thought the activists who approached me wanted to heal the wounded. I was wrong. There’s no healing when there is hate.

Books | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Pop Culture

BOOK REVIEW: Harriet The Spy-Louise Fitzhugh: Flinch, Harriet

June 11, 2017December 17, 2023

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‘Harriet the Spy’ is about a 11 year old girl who is gagged by family & system and forced into therapy. Reading helped me crystallise my own identity crisis.

Books | Pop Culture

Aren’t You Glad I’m Not Carrie?

February 6, 2017July 16, 2023

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I read ‘Carrie’ by Stephen King. In the same week, I received an invitation to a school alumni meet.

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