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Can we decolonize whilst working in tech?
I was promoted to write this by a conversation some dear colleagues were having recently. It got me thinking about a fundamental tension in my soul: working in what can only be described as the current frontier of colonialism as a proponent of decolonialism. What follows is a combination of delusion, justification, and straight-up doxxing…
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Why we don’t share our child’s photo on social media (a treatise on the demise of the internet)
This has come up in conversation with multiple people recently and it has been brought to my attention that our views aren’t commonly shared. I thought I’d take a moment to unpack the reasons we keep our child’s face off social media and minimize how much his personal data and image is shared digitally until…
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Sustainable living (the personal kind): Part ii
Pretty much a year on from my previous post about how I sustain my own wellbeing whilst parenting an infant, I’m adding a few more habits I’ve been developing as my baby grows rapidly into a toddler.
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Colonialism is why you can’t get a job after your layoff
Whatever people want to believe, we don’t live in a post-colonial world; we live in a world that has been shaped and defined by colonization. The ripple effects of colonialism are still resounding in every resource conflict, genocide, trade inequity, brain drain, capital flight, and commodity market. They echo in every ATS, LLM, CV, and…
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Why The Village matters even more for multicultural families
Having a widespread network of friends and family connected by the magic of modern technology is wonderful in its own way, but I feel the dearth of collective parenting — and of having our parenting parented. I want to be pulled up for my inconsistencies, shown miraculous techniques for soothing, told to sit down, and…
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Decolonization is never done: a model for reflecting on decolonial parenting
Sitting down to write a reflection post on our journey so far got me thinking about how we measure success, both as parents and people working on decolonizing our minds and relationships. I propose a model for reviewing our parenting, that I’ll be using myself in the coming months.
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Battling the overwhelm
We are getting so good at taking the path of least resistance that we are losing the skills to hard things: critical thinking, creative writing, conversation. Are we really ready to let AI do the thinking for us? Is this the world we want to give our children, or can we take back our skills…
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Hopeful holidays and special days
As much as I want to instill a sense of responsibility, reflection, and connection in everything we do, I recognize this needs to happen in proportion to the magic of childhood, too, especially when it comes ro festivals.
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On being an older mother
The biggest thing I’ve experienced coming into motherhood at the cusp of middle age is the sheer wonder I have for something that almost passed me by. I almost decided not to have any kids, but I just couldn’t fully commit to that decision, and I guess this is why.
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Parenting in an age of genocide
This cannot be the world we want to raise our children in. Thankfully for now, my child is too young to observe, note, or understand the atrocities taking place (in Gaza principally but not solely), but how can we explain to them how we are watching this horror show unfold like it’s just another Netflix…
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Not gentle parenting but conscious parenting
Of course I want my kid to be tough enough to navigate the brutal world that lies ahead, but I don’t believe that tough love is the only way to achieve this. I do want him to be more emotionally healthy than I was growing up, and I recognize the value of gentle parenting in…
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Colonialism, capitalism, climate – and us
What can we do in the face of the power and resources of increasingly emboldened climate criminals? How can we fight for the planet and teach our children it’s worth saving?
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