odd to be experiencing the most profoundly meaningful, intellectually clarifying week of life in my weird world while also becoming conscious that i'm undergoing some kind of third puberty. i don't know how well i'm engaging but there is such an intense concentration of energy and i feel like a freak every day but also more normal (adjustment).
sometimes selfishness, care/mutuality/reciprocity, and exploitation all occur in the same action, and that's ok.
(interpretation depends on the level of analysis. we experience it volunteering at a food bank (giving back, purpose in labor, notion of doing good, feminized labor/women's "free time", reinforced sexism, upholding an institution that's necessitated by neoliberal artificial scarcity); as phd students (curiosity, pursuit of self-fulfillment, "i don't know what else to do", devotion of oneself, being stretched thin, institutional demands and constraints, structural financial struggle); as people in relationship to others (giving, taking, receiving, sharing, requests, gifts, knowledge, limitations, incompleteness, indebtedness, acceptance))
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