Featuring longform interviews telling the story of #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar. We speak to activists, artists, authors, monastics, fighters, and many more.
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Many people in the West view the coup and its violent aftermath in Myanmar as taking place in some far-off, exotic land that has little bearing on our own lives. Please read this 🧵...
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Bruce Stewart begins with a simple confession: “I would say that even as a child I was a wonderer.”
From 1950s New Zealand to Europe, Africa, India, and the early days of the S.N. Goenka Vipassana movement, Stewart’s life traces more than a spiritual se… instagr.am/p/DZmzqUyyByx/
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Today we’re resurfacing a conversation with Melody Mociulski, a longtime ally of Myanmar whose first visit goes back to 1974. She arrived in a country sealed off from the world, a place of breathtaking beauty and quiet control, where hardship was woven i… instagr.am/p/DZlYBf8FuYa/
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Quiet help is still help. Steady help is powerful.
A lot of what makes this work possible doesn’t happen on a microphone or in public view. It happens because people choose to contribute their time, skills, attention, and care in ways that keep things m… instagr.am/p/DZkaUhfFrY9/
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#youtube Towards Confederation | IMP #460 youtube.com/watch?v=WBSjis71…
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Wah Wah Khine says it in a way that feels almost unbearable because it isn’t polished. It’s the voice of someone admitting they ran out of fuel. Not in theory. In their body. In their spirit. The kind of exhaustion where you start to wonder if hope is ju… instagr.am/p/DZizMnolqo1/
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As we continue with exploring past voices from our archive that touch on Pride month, we bring you the story of Pyae Phyo Kyaw, a Burmese doctor turned frontline medic, and an openly gay man who has spent the past years navigating both personal rejection… instagr.am/p/DZgOTsRCRme/
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Naw Moo Moo Paw was still a child in her Karen village near Bago when war became part of ordinary life.
Landmines. Injured neighbors. Families living with fear. A father wounded. A village shaped by death, disability, trauma, and survival.
Today, as a … instagr.am/p/DZfJovrCXLf/
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“It was infused by these radical monks, especially Wirathu. He led these Muslim-hating campaigns. It really touched my soul. It was the time that I actually woke up, and then I was really sad and I wanted to do something about it, but I cannot do anythin… instagr.am/p/DZdplDviaVY/
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There is something unmistakably Myanmar in these pieces.
Not just in the colors or the patterns, but in the feeling of them — the quiet artistry of everyday life, the handmade warmth of things created in homes and small workshops, the traditions of text… instagr.am/p/DZcrytQEzBU/
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How does a country resist domination without reproducing it?
Journalist, filmmaker, and peace scholar Mon Mon Myat places Myanmar’s struggle inside a much older argument over power, moral discipline, and the limits of force. From the nineteenth-century … instagr.am/p/DZck3J5CRnT/
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“When the military started shooting into the into the crowd, I was protesting. They shot at us as we ran. One of the university students, he was in the same group with me. He was shot dead that night. I was very sad, and I brought my violin and to the pl… instagr.am/p/DZbEyK8EzUv/
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Life is Meditation ift.tt/UFEKHf3
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