Shalini Sri Noor Perumal
@shaliniperumal.bsky.social
Writer/Artist/Medicina Keeper
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📍India/Myanmar/Thailand/Cambodia
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📍India/Myanmar/Thailand/Cambodia
"It's raining...don't forget to pray. Prayers are answered when rain falls," Layla reminds me.
June 26, 2026 at 9:06 AM
"It's raining...don't forget to pray. Prayers are answered when rain falls," Layla reminds me.
🦊🦊🦊 creature with squirrel arms, rabbit teeth and quirky earrings
June 25, 2026 at 9:05 AM
🦊🦊🦊 creature with squirrel arms, rabbit teeth and quirky earrings
🔷️🫐 Rest is a form of resistance against the burnout common for those working in the international development sector. Really trying to honour rest and joy.
March 25, 2026 at 9:55 AM
🔷️🫐 Rest is a form of resistance against the burnout common for those working in the international development sector. Really trying to honour rest and joy.
🗞️The Rohingya are not “fully dependent” on anyone. A more honest description of the Rohingya context would be this: They are aid-reliant but economically active — working illegally, exploited systematically, & criminalized for trying to live. ~ Shafiur Rahman
english.dvb.no/the-myth-of-...
english.dvb.no/the-myth-of-...
The Myth of Rohingya Aid Dependency - DVB
Originally published on Counterpoint BD The Rohingya are not “fully dependent” on anyone. They are dependent only to the extent that they have been made dependent — by design, by policy, and by a syst...
english.dvb.no
March 23, 2026 at 9:34 AM
🗞️The Rohingya are not “fully dependent” on anyone. A more honest description of the Rohingya context would be this: They are aid-reliant but economically active — working illegally, exploited systematically, & criminalized for trying to live. ~ Shafiur Rahman
english.dvb.no/the-myth-of-...
english.dvb.no/the-myth-of-...
🥼☕🗞️"In many health systems, "South Asian” complicates one’s risk profile. Risk has become attached to ancestry in ways that are statistically grounded but psychologically and socially consequential."
A thought-provoking piece by Dr. Muhammad Hamza Shah.
brownhistory.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
A thought-provoking piece by Dr. Muhammad Hamza Shah.
brownhistory.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
The Quiet Recalibration of Brown Bodies
How modern medicine is quietly redefining what it means to be “healthy” for South Asians, where risk is assigned not by illness, but by identity itself.
brownhistory.substack.com
March 23, 2026 at 6:45 AM
🥼☕🗞️"In many health systems, "South Asian” complicates one’s risk profile. Risk has become attached to ancestry in ways that are statistically grounded but psychologically and socially consequential."
A thought-provoking piece by Dr. Muhammad Hamza Shah.
brownhistory.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
A thought-provoking piece by Dr. Muhammad Hamza Shah.
brownhistory.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
🧠🗞️As someone who has struggled with mental health & bipolar disorder, this article by Khadija Rashid speaks to me so deeply. It discusses the unique struggles & triumphs brown families navigate when their children are autistic.
brownhistory.substack.com/p/when-the-w...
brownhistory.substack.com/p/when-the-w...
When the Word Doesn't Exist: Autism, Izzat, and the Fight to Be Seen in Brown Families
How autism is navigated, misunderstood, and too often silenced within South Asian families, while also revealing how new language, advocacy, and community are beginning to emerge.
brownhistory.substack.com
March 23, 2026 at 6:19 AM
🧠🗞️As someone who has struggled with mental health & bipolar disorder, this article by Khadija Rashid speaks to me so deeply. It discusses the unique struggles & triumphs brown families navigate when their children are autistic.
brownhistory.substack.com/p/when-the-w...
brownhistory.substack.com/p/when-the-w...
@fungiacademy is onto something: can we start giving time, slowing down and hearing the wisdom of nature, ancestors, the cosmos, Spirits, animal allies and plant kin, rather than prompting an artificial chat box? 🍄🍄🍄
March 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM
@fungiacademy is onto something: can we start giving time, slowing down and hearing the wisdom of nature, ancestors, the cosmos, Spirits, animal allies and plant kin, rather than prompting an artificial chat box? 🍄🍄🍄
🧶🪡 overstimulated + overwhelmed by the amount of information online. learning to be more discerning. 🌹
January 27, 2026 at 8:58 AM
🧶🪡 overstimulated + overwhelmed by the amount of information online. learning to be more discerning. 🌹
🔆 Another morning, another book by this red bench in the communal garden 🧱 #SimoneDeBeauvoir
November 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
🔆 Another morning, another book by this red bench in the communal garden 🧱 #SimoneDeBeauvoir
A sampling of end of year reads
November 22, 2025 at 6:49 AM
A sampling of end of year reads
Folks should have their Diwali lights on all year long, it just lights up the heart. 💜🪅🪔
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Folks should have their Diwali lights on all year long, it just lights up the heart. 💜🪅🪔
🎈Lesson from the cocina: love is an important ingredient in any recipe. #CacaoWisdom 🫕
November 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🎈Lesson from the cocina: love is an important ingredient in any recipe. #CacaoWisdom 🫕
🪔✨️💜 A Happy Diwali!
October 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
🪔✨️💜 A Happy Diwali!
A book set in 1800s Puerto Rico with a side of coffee in a poppy flower ceramic cup earlier today 🍒🌹🥀
September 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A book set in 1800s Puerto Rico with a side of coffee in a poppy flower ceramic cup earlier today 🍒🌹🥀
🤲🏽🪔🛶 When you make the decision to stop putting "USA" next to the college and work locations on your resume. So my internship at Amnesty International during the summer of 2013 is now located in "New York, New York (🐢 Island)." Anyone else want to join? #eventhesmallmovesarebig #medicinemoves
September 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🤲🏽🪔🛶 When you make the decision to stop putting "USA" next to the college and work locations on your resume. So my internship at Amnesty International during the summer of 2013 is now located in "New York, New York (🐢 Island)." Anyone else want to join? #eventhesmallmovesarebig #medicinemoves
🏵 a relevant quote from @mar._unfiltered for these times. It's a moment to reckon with our complicity in genocid€s and unlearn/unschool old selves that were unhealed. Holding onto a wound that makes you replicate harm is not the way. Re-imagine, and learn new truths for a magical ancient future. 🎈
August 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🏵 a relevant quote from @mar._unfiltered for these times. It's a moment to reckon with our complicity in genocid€s and unlearn/unschool old selves that were unhealed. Holding onto a wound that makes you replicate harm is not the way. Re-imagine, and learn new truths for a magical ancient future. 🎈
🥑 Nice to have some Nordic multi-seed crackers inspired by Norwegian Knekkebrod with a side of guacamole during journaling for la nuit. #harvestfestivals
August 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🥑 Nice to have some Nordic multi-seed crackers inspired by Norwegian Knekkebrod with a side of guacamole during journaling for la nuit. #harvestfestivals
🌿 depression is the natural state of someone who has a deep connection to a dying ecosystem. the medicine is repairing and restoring the nature that surrounds us.
@earthlyeducation.bsky.social
@earthlyeducation.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🌿 depression is the natural state of someone who has a deep connection to a dying ecosystem. the medicine is repairing and restoring the nature that surrounds us.
@earthlyeducation.bsky.social
@earthlyeducation.bsky.social
Seems like it is going to be a long, coffee-drinking week 💤 despite trying to cut back. ☕️ #WorkCommitments #IndigenousTime #FightingLinearTime
June 23, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Seems like it is going to be a long, coffee-drinking week 💤 despite trying to cut back. ☕️ #WorkCommitments #IndigenousTime #FightingLinearTime
I love people who message/email me in flowers 💐,even if it is work-related.
June 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I love people who message/email me in flowers 💐,even if it is work-related.
"A Tamil Erasure" - An eye opening discussion with Saravanan, a Tamil Burmese, who exposes the rich history and ongoing discrimination of the community in Myanmar, with a nuance that is hard to find these days. @insightmyanmar.bsky.social
insightmyanmar.org/complete-sho...
insightmyanmar.org/complete-sho...
Episode #354: A Tamil Erasure — Insight Myanmar
How Empire, Skin, and Silence Buried a People in Plain Sight
insightmyanmar.org
June 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"A Tamil Erasure" - An eye opening discussion with Saravanan, a Tamil Burmese, who exposes the rich history and ongoing discrimination of the community in Myanmar, with a nuance that is hard to find these days. @insightmyanmar.bsky.social
insightmyanmar.org/complete-sho...
insightmyanmar.org/complete-sho...
"If mothers and lovers and artists and dancers ruled the world..." by @mishazadeh.bsky.social 🌹
June 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"If mothers and lovers and artists and dancers ruled the world..." by @mishazadeh.bsky.social 🌹
It was so nice to eat some Singapore noodles (albeit Indian style, as I am based in 📍New Delhi). So spicy, and though too much spice does not usually suit my palette, I can make an exception for Singapore ♥️ I miss Southeast Asia a lot.
June 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
It was so nice to eat some Singapore noodles (albeit Indian style, as I am based in 📍New Delhi). So spicy, and though too much spice does not usually suit my palette, I can make an exception for Singapore ♥️ I miss Southeast Asia a lot.
What a blessing it is to drink a cup of cacao and open your heart.
May 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
What a blessing it is to drink a cup of cacao and open your heart.