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Saishreya Sriram
@saishreya.bsky.social
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joining international city planning msc @UCL ‘25-26.
all about a world towards disability, gender, species, climate, & social justice.
she/her. 🏳️‍🌈

https://saishreyasriram.substack.com/
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Am I a total sapphic stereotype? I was reading @older.bsky.social’s bful second book on my morn commute while having Chappell’s femininomenon in the background xD
February 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Folks, i write on a Substack every Sunday. This writing comes from a very personal space of viewing the world with anecdotes, glimmers, and glimpses of my life wherein I seek out the extraordinary even & esp in the ordinary rhythms.

link: saishreyasriram.substack.com

lmk what you think x🤍
“Ways and walls of seeing” is the title of the 5th Jan Substack post. Subtitle is: “Oh, so are you a cat or dog person? (isn't thinking in binaries so easy and contagious?)” The initial text of the post reads "Oh, so every Sunday?" I asked her. Link: SAISHREYASRIRASUBSTACK.COM "Trying to see the genius of it all." —this is the title of the Substack before last 29th of December. There is Sansa who is sitting on my handbang which is a faux leather material slightly brown. There is ablack coffee in a mug and indecipherable text on a notepad (mine). Sansa, who is an indie cat, is staring with her luminous green eyes—right at the camera of my phone— totally like staring right at your soul. Link: SAISHREYASRIRAM.SUBSTACK.com
January 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Ngl I made a face when they said the only plant-based mylk they had was millet-based (I drift b/w team coconut/cashew/soy/oat milk). And then, oof it was so good!!! So dairy-like!

this was exceptionally good, so much so that I got it a second time!!! 🤍
A standard circular cafe table with a cappuccino cup and saucer with two sugar sachets and a teeny spoon
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Now I’m looking at my next read: Alexander Berkman’s The Bolshevik Myth. And oh yes, @gautambhatia88.bsky.social thanks galore for the references to anarchism in The Sentence, posting about this book, and the reading inspiration in general).
A Kindle open ft The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman.
December 3, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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can’t hear her whimpers as they pierce through my skin and organs somehow.

I did get to read this week and they are bangers:

The Left Hand of Darkness By Ursula Le Guin.
The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar.
I also got to read a few essays from @sfdirewolf.bsky.social’s Disability Intimacy.
A kindle in focus with the only line on the page highlighted: “The words curate and cure, I remember, are both related to care.” This is feom the book The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar. A kindle in focus placed on a brown cushion with the cover page titled Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire. Edited by Alice Wong. Editor of Disability Visibility. My feet are also there in the periphery of the picture prominent in its brown skin and nails without colour or polish very like me to live by and practice my gender fluidity.
December 3, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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A lot of pain was felt this week esp by my feline flatmate who had hourly drops and syrups through syringes. Fast forward to now I am a few meters away from this month-old pup we are fostering who has a double fracture. She is sleeping and I’m grateful because-
An indie pup barely a month and a half old being tended to by two brown/South Asian/Indian women on a white towel. She has a double fracture which is why her left leg is slightly off even in the picture. She faces the camera staring as though: “Look at you trying to capture me and my pain in vain.” A kindle showing the cover of the book The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar on a table The cover of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin. On a royal blue bedhseet with gorgeous contrasting floral designs lies an indie feline with brown and dark stripes whose face I’m stroking as she has her eyes closes and shows she likes this gesture her face tilted beautifully in all the glory of comfort only cats know
December 3, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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watching Payal Kapadia’s All we Imagine as Light reminded me a lot of Bong Joon-Ho’s work and the day had hues of grey and well....grief.

(long-ish thread)

CW: mention of (avoidable) animal suffering with notes of interconnected human grief and poles of the human condition + the dsm-phive
The movie poster All we Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia. 119 mins | Adult. Drama genre. Malayalam film with English subtitles. It won the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival. The magazine WIRED’s black and white feature of Boong Joon-Ho Oscar winning Director whose quote reads “Capitalism turns living things into commodities.” His photo is in black and white featuring a South Korean male with glasses staring elsewhere and not at the camera.
November 25, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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A weekly book update (ft. felines) on is something I will start from now.

This past week:
Orbital by Samantha Harvey @thebookerprizes.bsky.social
The Transformative Constitution + The Sentence by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
Hunchprose by Ranjit Hoskote @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
A black and white indie cat on top of a desk curiously sniffing a book while there is a kindle open on a brown skinned person’s lap with the chapter titled Orbit 7 of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital which won the Booker Prize just last week. A book by the author Gautam Bhatia titled The Transformative Constitution with a light beige colour front cover with one image of an old rupee/currency note and an image of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar one of India’s most prominent leaders in history who served in the Constituent Assembly and was a major social reformer A light beige coloured page cover book titled “hunchprose” with a majestic bird featured and the book is a poetry collection by Ranjit Hoskote published by Penguin. On the same desk, the book The Sentemce is there A comfy black velvety sofa has a sole occupant: a light brown and white coloured indie cat who is sleeping soundly with his head tilted on the armchair of the sofa
November 23, 2024 at 9:59 AM