a journal of a wanderer/wonderer
“Will there ever be anyone quite like you?” To this question, every fibre of my being feels like screaming, “Yes, yes there will! And someone much better, more suitable for you too!” Not in the cynical, no-one-is-irreplaceable kind of way, but in the “God-has-a-more-beautiful-plan for you” way.
Halo! Berhubung dalam setahun terakhir ini saya sering banget dapat pertanyaan terkait serba-serbi menikah secara online dan juga cara masuk Australia dari pasangan yang mengalami nasib serupa, dan sejujurnya saya sudah kehabisan energi untuk jawab pertanyaan satu-satu, saya tuangkan langsung semuanya di blogpost ini ya! Semoga bisa cukup menjawab pertanyaan dan penasaran teman-teman. 😉 Q:… Continue reading FAQ: Nikah Online dan Visa Australia
“I feel less than a human being,” says Mozhgan Moarefizadeh, an Iranian refugee in Indonesia. A smart, beautiful 26-year-old woman, Mozhgan had to flee her home country with her family due to political reasons. Their destination was Australia. What they thought would be a short transit in Indonesia turned out to be a long, 6-year… Continue reading Refugees in Indonesia: A Reflection on May 18 Academy
Readers, I married him.Between Sydney and Surabaya, it was online, last minute, and currently unrecognised by the state — but all that cease to matter because at the end of the day I’m just happy and thankful that I’m married to the wonderful man that I love. Alhamdulillah. ♥️ A bit of a backstory about… Continue reading Love in the Time of Corona: How We Got Married Online on Zoom
“I would have liked to tell him about everything that has happened to me. I would have liked to tell him about Arakan, our land that was confiscated, the arrests, imprisonment, the humiliation and torture, my house that was stolen, and the continuing persecution of my family who are held hostage under the apartheid system… Continue reading First, They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks (2019)
“There was a rhyme my mother has told me at home which always confused me: ‘sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me’. Names did hurt though. The words did hurt. They hurt deep inside my chest. They hurt inside my head. They hurt inside my heart.” — Maxine Beneba… Continue reading The Hate Race (2016)
“She wanted to … tell him how unnecessary it was, this bloodying and binding, this turning faith into a pugilistic exercise; to tell him that life was a struggle with ourselves more than with a spear-wielding Satan; that belief was a choice for our conscience always to be sharpened. […] He told her … that… Continue reading The Thing Around Your Neck (2009)
“The first step is developing an open and critical mind, taking the doctrines that are standard and questioning them. […] Anything you look at, every one of these things, you have to ask yourself: Is this true? A pretty good criterion is that if some doctrine is widely accepted without qualification, it's probably flawed.” This book is a written account of David Barsamian’s interviews with Noam Chomsky on a range of current world affairs: from the state surveillance, Middle East and ISIS, Israel and Palestine, the Trump presidency and American politics, to climate change.
A canon for radical, revolutionary education, in this book Freire critiques the conventional approach to education and offers an emancipatory pedagogy to empower those who are oppressed and dehumanised, with the end goal of dismantling the structure of oppression ...
“It seemed enough for her to just deal with whatever it was that came her way, calmly and without fuss. Or perhaps it was simply that things were happening inside her, terrible things, which no one else could even guess at, and thus it was impossible for her to engage with everyday life at the… Continue reading The Vegetarian (2007)
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