One Future Post: Volume 4
This volume encourages the reader to revisit their childhood and explore what reconciliation can look like by holding those experiences with the language we now have as adults.
Curator Speaks
Through this piece, the curator delves into the various ways of growing up by revisiting their own experiences that made them afraid that they were performing childhood ‘wrong’. The piece also explores joy- the joy of growing older and realising that there really is no script or ‘right’ way to grow up and that you can offer yourself the care, patience and kindness that others didn’t. Learning curves then don’t signify failure but rather symbolise living itself.
The talented Anushka Nagarmath has curated this volume of One Future Post. Anushka is a poet and writer whose work mostly revolves around themes of childhood, family, queerness and friendship. At the centre of their writing is the question of forgiveness. When they're taking a break from writing, they love reading fanfiction, listening to music by their favourite band and watching any cute gay web series (and rambling about any of these in detail if you let them)
Art Recos
Here is a specially curated set of art recommendations. Click on the image to know more.
DIY activity
Divide your life in 5 year periods and meditate on all the significant things from each period.
Grab a few pieces of paper (or do this on your laptop) and start curating each of these items as if they were museum pieces. You can draw each item or cut out pictures from magazines or childhood books. List the name of each exhibit and its significance in that period of your life. You can color, doodle in the margins, decorate your museum in whatever way you like.Â
Try to engage with certain memories that come up and reflect on how even if certain things have changed across the years, they still remain special to you in some previous part of your life.Â
Click on the image to learn more about this activity.
(Curator’s note: The decision to choose this activity was also influenced by another museum-based writing prompt I did in a writing workshop led by poet Sally Wen Mao.)
Keep up with updates and highlights of our work since the last volume of One Future Post! All eyes here please!
Uncuff India: Four episodes of our limited episode podcast, Uncuff India, are now live on Spotify and Google Podcasts. Through this podcast, we aim to unpack state violence and its impact on the citizens of India. What’s more, we have also launched the Uncuff India Prize, a creative competition where listeners can submit creative pieces basis the theme of the episode and they stand a chance to win a cash prize of INR 1500. Go on, submit your entries!
One Future Labourline: One Future Labourline (08043053588), offers pro-bono preliminary legal aid and advocacy support in English and Hindi to individuals or groups who may be facing harm, abuse, and/or discrimination at their workplace. The helpline is active between 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. IST from Mondays to Fridays.
This is an advisory helpline and hence does not provide any emergency support.One Future Festival: One Future Festival 2023-24 is a traveling roadshow where we are partnering with 100 institutions to facilitate customized workshops, community spaces and healing spaces. Let's partner together and nurture more radically kinder spaces, together. Exciting, no? Fill out this form or book a meeting directly to convey your interest and we will get right back to you!
How to Share the World poetry book: We are thrilled to unveil ‘How to Share the World’, a feminist poetry anthology that brings together the work of five incredible poets who have penned verses on joy and healing, feminist friendships, love and revolution, queer justice and community. It is now available to pre-order through Amazon at a discounted price. It launches on 4th October and will be available to purchase through Amazon and Swiggy Minis.
Healing Liberation Spaces: We are running our Healing Liberation Spaces from October 2023 to March 2024. Under this project, we offer spaces to build community and foster radicalization and solidarity in the context of social justice. These spaces are designed with an affirmative, inclusive lens, keeping in mind important contemporary issues, and are facilitated by a mental health professional, a person with lived experience, or an expert in the field. You can find more about the project as well as the exciting monthly lineup here. If you’re already interested, go ahead and sign up directly.
Labour Rights, Climate Change and the Urban Impact Sector survey: We’d love to hear from urban development sector professionals for our new white paper on ‘Labour Rights, Climate Change and the Urban Impact Sector’. Through this white paper, we hope to learn how climate change affects work, and everyday life, for urban development professionals. Tell us this and more in our survey.
Thank you for reading the fourth volume of One Future Post! We hope it made for a fulfilling read. We can’t wait to share newer volumes with you!
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