Swastik Pradhan

“As long as the spotlight remains fixed on the victims, light can’t shine on those who are actually responsible for the problem.”
― Jackson Katz, Every Man: Why Violence Against Women is a Men’s Issue, and How You Can Make a Difference

“You are not a failure because you can’t keep up with laundry. Laundry is morally neutral.”
― KC Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning: 31 Days of Compassionate Help

“Care tasks exist for one reason only… to make your body and space functional enough for you to easily experience the joy this world has to offer.”
― K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning

“In his writings, Proust suggests that our memory is separate from us, residing in the ocean breeze or the smells of early autumn—things linked to the earth that recur periodically, confirming the permanence of mankind. For me and no doubt many of my contemporaries, memories are associated with ephemeral things such as a fashionable belt or a summer hit and therefore the act of remembering can do nothing to reaffirm my sense of identity or continuity. It can only confirm the fragmented nature of my life and the belief that I belong to history.”
― Annie Ernaux, Shame