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Lajya Nayak
- 8 min
“I GIVE TOO MUCH”
Giving is often seen as this noble act of benevolence. It’s helped us survive and connected through the centuries. The reciprocity of giving helped us depend and trust each other. We give each other our time, mental resources, support, and material possessions to help and be present for each other. While there is a feeling of altruism associated with giving, the romanticism of self-sacrifice associated with giving is idealized among us. There’s a general sense of positivity w

reflectivearena
- 8 min
Crip Time: The Value of Slowing Down in a World struggling to catch up
‘’Crip time is flex time not just expanded but exploded; it requires re-imagining our notions of what can and should happen in time, or recognizing how expectations of 'how long things take' are based on very particular minds and bodies. Rather than bend disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds." -Alison Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip Crip time is a concept used to explain how chronically ill/ disabled/ neurodiverg