Associate Lecturer in International Law at SOAS
PhD candidate @KentLawSchool, LLM (Harvard).
Working and writing on transitional justice, feminisms, ethnicity, and impacts of (armed) conflicts.
Mother and wife (she/her).
Danushka Medawatte
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“As the lotus rises unstained from the mud, so the wise remain untouched by the world.”
— Buddhist teachings
Yet be well assur’d
You put sharp weapons in a madman’s hands.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
Yahia Lababidi
And if this threat was "imminent" for 47 years, why did Trump swear he will not go to war against Iran?
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
And here I was thinking that my class not knowing the Lincoln Lawyer books was bad enough! Not knowing Elvis takes the cake!
