Personal news: I am changing my name/would like to be referred to as Aganiké (or for short, Aga). [pronounced a-gah-ni-keh]
Legal process to formalize this will take a looong year at least (prior passport issues + pandemic) but otherwise yes, this me.
I'm still ok with people calling me neeti because, of course, I know SOME people in my circle won't change. *sad laugh*
Is it time for a #reintroduction #introduction?
- I'm a writer, ex-journalist, now at a branding agency.
- I'm bi. My family doesn't know this.
- I talk about gender stuff, mental health, films/tv, linguistics.
- I speak ok French but I understand it well. Also: Malayalam, Hindi, Arabic.
- I grew up in the Middle East, studied/worked in India, live in Toronto now. All these places are home but also not home.
- I like meeting/talking to people virtually! Say hi!
- I also like bullet points.
the real tragedy of the effort towards better handling of digital Arabic text is that even our loftiest goals are a compromise. most systems can't even do the super basic A in the first image correctly. few can pull off B, allowing letters to stack and bend, preserving some of the flourish and nuance of the script. the second image -- which is still text! -- is just not on the table. it's the kind of thing we're leaving behind to exist on computers.
Quick Pandemic Questionnaire – boosts appreciated
I'm trying to get peoples' opinions on a few things for a thing I'm trying to write. Well, a few things really. So here are a few little questions. Make your answers as long or short as you like, share only as much as you want to, and just speak from the heart. There are no judgements or wrong answers.
I now have an IG alt where I post tarot stuff, shadow work and geek out about the moon or sunsets. These are things I wouldn't post about on my main because I feel like that's not who I am with the people from my past and I'd be judged pretty hard for what seems like a sudden u-turn.
So here's to moving off the main and making my alt the main in 2021!
Personal news: I am changing my name/would like to be referred to as Aganiké (or for short, Aga). [pronounced a-gah-ni-keh]
Legal process to formalize this will take a looong year at least (prior passport issues + pandemic) but otherwise yes, this me.
I'm still ok with people calling me neeti because, of course, I know SOME people in my circle won't change. *sad laugh*
My mom has a phrase she calls “calluses on the psyche” which basically translates to “you’re going to learn how to admit that you are completely embarrassingly wrong about something and then MOVE ON!
We’ll all laugh at you, but that’ll last like 16 seconds and then one of US will be wrong and we’ll all laugh at them”
food adj language being used in a non-food context, resource request
My office is starting a "meeting diet" where we cancel everything we can (within reason) one week per quarter so management can actually work.
Especially because we're starting the plan during the holiday season, I don't think we should be using "diet" - fatphobia, triggering, etc. I can't find any resources online, tho, so I don't want to bring it up just yet.
Does anyone have a link to a good resource?
• Writer/editor
• Malayali in Toronto
• Feminist (post-??)
• History
• Stargazing/moon-gazing/tarot-journaling
• Atheist-Buddhist, at this moment
• I think about: intersectional gender stuff, mental health, films/tv, linguistics
• I know: EN, Malayalam, Hindi, Arabic, French
• Learning, whenever: German, Urdu