Hope persisting

I have had an emotional day, and it's barely 1 PM. Over class today, we talked about climate affect, how emotions are political, and how we can together start thinking of envisioning a better world. Often thinking about the world ending can be paralysing -- often I find myself on the other end of questions…

The wisdom of the youth

With the emergence of the pandemic, and the countless other issues that people face -- the Black Lives Matter movement in America (and elsewhere in the world), the standing with Hong Kong against China's policies, a looming dictatorship in the country that yearns to penalise dissent -- I have seen with my very eyes the…

Of dreams, culminations, and new beginnings

  The start of the decade bore witness to bright-eyed Joy in her senior year of high school -- fiery, argumentative, passionate, and certain she was going to be a lawyer. In career day, that's what she told everyone she would be -- voice of the voiceless, defender of the oppressed.   The end of…

S p e s

Nine months ago today, I said yes to an invitation to be part of what I have always envisioned myself to be involved in when I realised I was going to go to law school -- environmental law and human rights work. Heartbreaks, frustrations, more than one disappointment, and almost a year later, I still…