What in the World am I Thinking?

Humans have always been trying to make sense of the world around them. From different environments to social structures, we are constantly learning everyday about the world around us and how we live in it. Making sense of some global issues is what I am going to humbly attempt to talk about in my blog; topics like food production systems, women's rights, gender equality, and performative economic systems will certainly find their place on my blog feed. This raises the question that nags me as I type out my opinions for the internet to set into stone: as a mere college student, where is my place to speak on these issues?

Though I have little experience or credibility as a college student compared to Nobel Peace Prize winners or international policy makers, I am hoping to bring dissenting perspectives into conversation as I learn more about them, especially in relation to social and environmental justice. I feel as though I have been privileged enough to live in a Westernized bubble, not yet having to concern myself with the suffering of my planet or my brothers and sisters primarily living in the global South. Certain things really got to me, for example, eating avocado toast in my tiled kitchen while other people my age were eating mud cakes in the hot sun. Yes, mud cakes, they are made of mud.

I found myself repeating what my parents had told me when I would not eat all my food at the dinner table as a child, "Be thankful for what you have, other people are starving." However, I never really considered why they were actually starving and living in poverty or what I could do to help that poverty. I also did not consider the systems that were enforcing and perpetuating that poverty on a global scale.

So hopefully with a little bit of a background in this post, we can conquer some tough and taboo topics. Through the power of blogging and a whole lot of articles I find on the internet that explain specificities better than I can, we can unite fact and opinion to consider some new perspectives and an infinite number of possible natures.