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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The way work is organised is unsustainable and traps us in precarity, perpetual anxiety, endless fatigue… And we try to offset it with punctuated moments of leisure, time with family and friends & so on. Fact remains it colonises so much of our time to do things we care about

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Anyway, I’ve not been completely useless. I can confidently say I’ll have a substantial amount of writing done before the year ends. But damn. At what cost.

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I also wanna see people and hang out without the anxiety of knowing there’s something i need to submit, get done, organise, troubleshoot and shit. Oct-Dec were really hectic for me ngl — work wise I barely touched my school work 😮‍💨😮‍💨😑

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I’m in the colony bcz I wanted a change in scenery, because I wanna be productive and write. But I’m so tired and wanna sleep all the time. But that’s not productive. And it would only mean I don’t get to rest before I jump back into work again the following year

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

At my work, we only went on break in the second week of December and go back to working the first week of January. During this two/three week period off, I’m somehow supposed to consolidate and get done everything I’ve been putting off. I’m not sure about this.

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I’m really worried about 2026. How am I gonna get shit done? I feel like time is not the luxury i have. And I’ve seen that when I overexert myself, I easily fall sick. And that’s more time taken off from doing ‘productive tasks’.

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Anyway, #Adolescence is a cautionary tale fam. I don’t know what should be done, but something must be done.

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We’re seeing a creation of toxic misogynist men in front of our eyes So fuckin scary esp with powerful men leading the movement Iyoh

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

With the overexposure and access because of the age of the internet, all one can do is try their best I guess - esp in raising good men. But my gawd, toxic incel heteropatriarchal culture has become so so pervasive esp with influential perps like El*n leading it

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

My gawd. You can do all you can as a parent, but still have no control over what your child gets exposed to, and let alone what your kids get involved in.

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Anyway, Black scholarship matters, even when coming from up and coming Black intellectual elites who now pontificate about Black life with so much authority 😊

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The litmus test to such concepts, and not that they’re not generative, is how they would land with people ko kasi… ko metseng, on the margins. How do you tell someone who’s battling material precarity that they’re dead men walking (philosophically ofcourse)

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Back from my hiatus here and I’ve got thoughts. There’s an unsettling way in which certain scholars wear concepts like ‘social death’ and ‘Black misery’ as some sort of badge of honour. This is while Black people everyday try to survive and dream of better futures and presents. It’s cultish.

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

They cooked here unfortunately 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 open.spotify.com/track/2plbrE...

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Die With A Smile

Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars · Die With A Smile · Song · 2024

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

attended a traditional wedding recently 😊😁

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Recently been listening to Meiway who is a singer from the Ivory Coast. He is most notable for pioneering the Zoblazo style. A while back I created a playlist around him. Check it out. open.spotify.com/playlist/34u...

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meiway coded

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Saying all of this to say that I’ve become comfortable with being alone and single, and I don’t want that. I have been in relationships, and while tough, they were very fulfilling. I want that again. Either this, or I’m just having a quarter life existential crisis

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I feel out of sorts because I feel like I should know this, but I don’t. Most of my former lovers I met through the apps. Some were through other friends. Besides this, I have no experience. I also recognise that I might be scared to explore other options because of my anxieties

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

They’re toxic but often the only way to meet other queer people without having to navigate the violence of offline line. But I want to expand my horisons, and a big part of that is going beyond the apps. How did people navigate looking for romantic partners pre-apps?

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

As a queer man, I’m having such a tough time putting myself out there and hopefully cultivate something meaningful, romantically. I’m also at a space where I don’t feel good about my body — and ofcourse that comes with its own anxieties. A lot of this has been compounded by dating apps

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Claudia Gastrow @cgastrow.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

My book is out! The Aesthetics of Belonging explores how urban aesthetics shape experiences and practices of political belonging: uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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The Aesthetics of Belonging | Claudia Gastrow | University of North Carolina Press

After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola's three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the...

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’m keen to connect with people who organise around important causes especially around #Africa and #SouthAfrica. I’m always happy to lend a hand even if it’s just reposting 😊

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I love pop music and lots of music that’s not considered pop 😅. Also looking for my #KDrama folks. So please follow and add me to any group if you come across this post 😁

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

In an effort not to turn this account into some kind of LinkedIn-esque platform, perhaps I also need to say what I’m about outside productivity and so on.

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I love it when #KDramas deliver on the romance. A tired trope I know. But it’s queer, so I’m happy 😂😁

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’m especially enjoying the Taekwando one. Definitely better than the Love in the Big City in terms of the heavy themes it tackles. I’m rooting so hard for the main protagonists 😅😅

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I don’t if I’ve hit the jackpot or what. But lately, I’ve been watching some queer (read gay) Korean dramas. I’m at the end of #LoveInTheBigCity and #LetFreeTheCurseOfTaekwando. So happy that to see #Kdramas transcending the ‘BL’ trope & giving straight up queer content

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Writing is so hard 😮‍💨 Thank you 🙏🏾

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’m currently busy trying to write out ethnographic chapters of my dissertation. I thought I had it, but I’m now starting to feel unsure about everything. Tips on how to get out of this funk 😮‍💨 #writing #anthropology #dissertation #phd

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Kagiso🇿🇦🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @kagiso.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Today feels like a Tyla kinda day 😁😮‍💨. Happy Monday yall ;) open.spotify.com/album/5QsVRN...

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TYLA +

Tyla · Album · 2024 · 17 songs

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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Excited to return to South Africa this week to host a workshop, “Navigating Regulatory Frontiers: Operationalizing African AI and Data Governance,” at the University of Johannesburg! I look forward to having critical discussions on the impact of AI in Africa. www.uj.ac.za/faculties/hu...

Flyer for Chinasa’s Navigating Regulatory Frontiers: Operationalizing African AI and Data Governance workshop at the University of Johannesburg.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Since the current Anthropology/Archaeology Starter Pack is full, I have started a second one focusing on active public communicators. Come see us on our accounts or on the Anthropology/Archaeology Feed! 🏺 go.bsky.app/3MxCYy5

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