Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
Are you optimistic about the future?
I am optimistic about my willingness to show up for it with the best I’ve got.
I am optimistic about my willingness to show up for it with the best I’ve got.
Orion Magazine | Nature, Culture & Place
We can’t address the decline in empathy without addressing the decline in attention. Empathy requires a degree of sustained focus:
Paying attention to an experience someone is sharing
Recalling experiencing a similar emotional response
Sitting with your own and... See more
Dr. Samaiya Mushtaqsubstack.com
In her essay “On Keeping a Notebook” [4], Joan Didion warned that “we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.” She added: “Otherwise, they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted
... See morepieces examine how transness has been pathologized as a medical disorder requiring a cure, or that one assimilate in effort to become “unclockable.” And ultimately, the case of people who move across gender assignations displaces the ongoingness of colonial classification systems. Those with an expressed disinterest in being “cured” of their... See more
J. Khadijah Abdurahman • Letter from the Editor on Medicine and the Body in Tech
Many of us have clear visions of what kind of world we don’t want to live in, but are struggling to imagine the kind of world we would live in - let alone how to build that world. We need new narratives to illuminate what’s broken in our society and hands-on solutions for a more sustainable, equal and resilient world.
Marjolein Pijnappels • Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
Dialogues of the dead differ from symposia of the living not only because people of different eras and cultures converse, but also because, as shades living posthumously, they no longer consider the life circumstances in which they speak. What they say can no longer benefit or harm them.
I think it’s also important to admit, to attest to, and to [bear] witness to the violence of the archive of slavery, which is about erasure. There are tick marks instead of names; it’s all about the slave’s relationship to the accumulation of wealth for another. The archive doesn’t tell us the story of someone’s life.
Bettina Judd • On
In The Disappearance of Ritual, Byun-Chul Han explains that “Rituals are characterized by repetition. Repetition differs from routine in its capacity to create intensity.” ... Rituals involve enacting reality; tapping into the imaginal, the place between our minds and the world, to take on new and wider perspectives. We can do this by revisiting,... See more