Essays

  • Becoming the sun

    Becoming the sun

    Ever since I started to learn more about gender and gender expression, I have become fascinated with the concept of being gender neutral. The fact that there are people in this world who are going beyond the boxes we trap ourselves in and creating a space for themselves is both intimidating and empowering.

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  • 10 things you can do for your mental health

    I did a thought experiment recently that had only two questions. One of those questions was what you do for your mental health every day. I thought this was an important question because it would remind you to slow down and go through your day to understand that every day, we’re doing small activities that…

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  • Creating space for yourself

    One of my favourite marketing lessons is the two ways in which you can create a competitive advantage for your brand. One is to encroach on someone else’s market share. So, if yours is 30% and your competitor is at 70% you take away 5% from them to reach 35%. The other way is to…

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  • Markers for good mental health days

    When I was writing the post on knowing your triggers, it occurred to me that though I had a checklist for how to overcome bad days or how to know something is triggering me or that I need to make some shift in my daily routine to sleep better, etc. I didn’t have a checklist…

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  • What’s your shame

    What’s your shame

    I don’t know Raj Kundra’s story. Frankly, I’m not concerned about the veracity of the story. What concerns me are the range of reactions that the news received in my household and the kind of content that has been created around it.

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  • When was the first time you consumed a queer piece of content?

    My sister and I were having a conversation on what the first piece of content that either of us consumed around the LGBT+ community was.

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  • Know thyself…and thy triggers

    Triggers are words, situations, scenes, topics, circumstances, basically anything outside that create a response inside you. The response can be smallish and thus manageable or largish and thus may require some form of tools or professional help to deal with. An example of a tool would be Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help with certain…

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