This is what it means to work on human rights: bearing witness to the brokenness without becoming completely dehumanized - or completely incapacitated by despair.
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Instead of actually fulfilling its obligations to citizens, the government offers palliative “breaks” in its normally planned failure to provide basic public services.
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I guess that’s been the theme of this experience thus far - why not try? To get a bit more of what I want out of the many hours and years of my life I have left to fight for social justice in all its many forms. To do things a bit more on my own terms.
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Owning my generalism feels centering, grounding. It also helps me realize that perhaps I’m not going to find THE next thing in my career.
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It felt exciting to be at the mercy of the elements, to be reminded of our smallness, to be captive to the wildness of it all.
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I am trying to resist the pull of productivity, the siren call of ticking tasks off a list of my own invention. It’s so much easier than sitting with questions about what I want to do, who I want to do it with, what steps I need to take to get there.
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In one sense, vipassana is not directly related to human rights and/or development (the ostensible focus of this blog), but in another much broader sense, it's the art of living - and therefore related to everything.
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A summary of the newsletter emails I send out every 3 months.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) recently published an article I wrote with the Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) about what makes collaboration between their funders members work (or not), and how we can do it better.
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On the most elemental (important) level it’s just about returning to the present moment. You got lost in thoughts about the future or the past? No problem, just start again.
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The day before Thanksgiving, I find myself grateful for not only making it to the end, but for being able to enjoy the space between this and whatever happens next.
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I’m over 20 years into my career and I still feel like I’m proving myself to someone most days. Even writing this blog sometimes feels like I’m proving something to myself. Or about myself. Or both.
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A trip carefully planned and designed for quality time with missed loved ones turned into a haphazard tour of AirBnBs.
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The trip back last year was hard. I returned to Cape Town in August really questioning whether I could move back to the U.S.
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For my entire reproductive life, I have known that I could access safe and legal abortion services, should I need or want them. And as much as I tried not to, I have taken my autonomy over my own body for granted all these years.
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It feels strangely, simultaneously devastating and gratifying to see the January 6 coup attempt all laid out so clearly, by Trump’s staunchest supporters no less.
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It’s been months since Martin Kimani's address at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, but I recently found myself thinking about and re-reading it…so I figured it was worth sharing here for those who may have missed it.
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Why not extend this newfound rage towards oligarchs to the UK, Saudi Arabia, China - America?
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File these under things that - while I’m grateful they’ve occurred - I can’t believe hadn’t happened yet.
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Not surprising that I feel and interpret the Russian onslaught through other people’s music and poetry, since none of my own words seem up to the task.
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