"What makes your writing become so slow?"
"I think I sort of loosing my sense of purpose and as you may already know, I am a person of ideas so if I don't see the meaning of it, things will become slow."
"You need to do something about it ..."
"I know, sometimes I feel bad of using people's story into research without ability to giving back. But don't you think this kind of thinking is colonial by itself, an assumption that people's need to be helped? On the other hand, is not it also ignorant to pretend that everything is okay on the ground?"
"Is that why you decide to return?"
"Yeah, that's one of the plans, although I am not sure how to create a path to go there and even if I become closer to 'them', I think I will still be 'the others' for them and at certain degree, that is something good I guess since diversity is needed to create change."
"What is this obsession with change?"
"Don't you feel the same, a lingering feeling of making things more equal?"
"Yeah, but whose lens do you use? Their lenses or thing that you think is best? And apart from this unpracticality of thinking about voices and representation, how do you want your own voice to be listened? Papers, more talks or being more outspoken?"
"I don't know."
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