This journal exists because some thoughts don’t belong in bullet points, productivity planners, or tidy little “lessons learned” boxes. It exists as a cathartic mind dump and a thoughtful record of lived experience—where energy, intuition, advocacy, and curiosity intersect. Where noticing counts as doing. Where nothing has to be fully resolved to be worth examining.

The idea that racism could help sustain a social structure challenges my instinctive belief that it exists only to hinder progress, growth, and critical thought. However, as Memmi (1965) argues, colonialism is inseparable from racism; without it, the colonial order could not survive. While deeply uncomfortable, this acknowledgment forces me to consider how societies organize themselves and how social order—however unjust—becomes normalized and reproduced. Racism, in this cont