So, yes, I realize it's been a month. Tbh I was and maybe to some extent still am someone who thinks art or, more specifically, creating it is unnecessary or unimportant or only worth it after all the other almost infinite responsibilities and tasks and intellectually rigorous work is completed. But art and making it is intellectually rigorous. In fact, in the unannounced hiatus I took from this I saw a post on ig (follow @aminaofskiveo) that essentially said, during these unexpected (for some) times one of the first things to which we fled is the arts, entertainment...media. When I am afraid and searching for meaning in something incomprehensible or reprehensible, art has a way of injecting displacing emotions. This episode and its partner, to be released tomorrow, should prepare you for the astounding (not an overstatement) lineup of guests and, importantly, topics to be published rapidly.

Music by Clueless Kit, now known as Marc Wavy: take, location, snake, glass light, outset, nothing but you, not flume

Follow him at soundcloud.com/marcwavy

Meditation co-produced by Evelyn from the Internets and Lauren Ash / Original score by Muhsinah.

Guest: @sofia_haq on ig of @muslimwomenprofessionals

References: See these Google Docs

Epidemic Loneliness

Discipline in Education

98 million girls out of school

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