Best 30th bday gift! I finally got conferred today!
It has been tough, to say the least, completing this journey throughout the pandemic. But I wasn’t alone: couldn’t have done it without the support of many, whom I am eternally indebted to ❤️ esp @NarelleWarren & Dr Sara Niner
@Monash_Arts @arielyap_ @LalSouvik@brittanylralph@PrabhaBogoda1@lakshmin_m@TrangDo88 Special thanks to my supervisors Sara Niner & @NarelleWarren, who bought a book, printed articles and HAND DELIVERED them to me during lockdown. The walks in the park & frequent check-ins got me through the Pandemic. I miss my home. Couldn’t have done any of it without them ❤️
Twenty years ago this very week, my family and I were on a small wooden fishing boat in the Indian Ocean, having fled the barbarism of the #Taliban. We were rescued by the Norwegian containership, the MV Tampa, and denied entry to Australia at the point of a gun.
The picture does not only show the risk of oxygen shortages. It also shows the latest North/South divide in global health politics - and possibly global politics in general!
I love freedom. Who doesn't love freedom? I want freedom from being amongst the over 4 million official (and likely 10 million actual) COVID deaths globally. And freedom from being amongst the over 13 million current active cases. Or millions of current Long COVID cases. 1/