When You Know You Grow
When I started The Literate Activist two years ago, my only intention was to write about the books I read. I consumed so quickly, and yet had no one to share these stories with because no one around me liked to read as much as I did. I thought I would go crazy if I did not get those stories out of my head. So I started a blog.
But then I grew up. Started college. Traveled. Met new people. Fell in love. Picked up new hobbies (yoga, skateboarding, photography, film). Got a tattoo. Found my political home.
My world changed. My interests changed. Things I grew up loving, got drowned out by bigger waves of curiosity.
And I have never been the same since.
And I don’t think I can go back.
“The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with the mermaids at the bottom of the sea.”
While I was writing The Literate Activist I was religiously posting a couple of times a week, which meant that I had to have a steady influx of books I wanted to talk about, and when the pressure got to be too much— especially when college started and I was doing so many other things— I began writing about other things on my blog: movies I had watched, social movements that I had gravitated towards, current events that were happening in our world that I wanted to share with others. It became so much bigger than the little space I had created.
Well-Versed is my attempt at navigating the larger world and navigating being a part of a global generation. I want to attempt to capture the unique experience of being a young adult, a Gen Z global citizen who is a part of the next generation of policymakers, world leaders, consumers, and economic participants.
Well-Versed is the physical manifestation of the growth I've gone through. I think it’s important to have others (you all) on this journey with me because when we allow people to share different parts of themselves, we find connection, shared and differing perspectives, and hold space for significant conversations.
On top of that I kind of want this to be a space where if we need to, we can press the pause button on whatever is happening and drown out in our bliss so I'll be sharing films and music and hosting really cool projects to showcase photography and much, much more.
This is only the beginning. We can only go up from here.
Care to join me?