IRL final girl. Philosophy PhD student. Child sex trafficking survivor. Psychotherapist. City-based hermit. Wheelchair-based witch. Rromni.https://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mlsqll6dts2pI am not in general a student of medicine, however this talk has such a fascinating title that I might just have to go along. 'Orbs of Blood in 14th-Century Persia.' I mean... who could resist? 🩸 https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/online-lectures/orbs-of-blood-in-14th-century-persia/14 May 2026 11:45 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsqll6dts2phttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3ml6qle4sgc2i🌱🌷🌹🪻🌱 * b a x t a l o ~ e d e r l e z i * 🪷🌺🌸🌼🌱06 May 2026 12:52 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6qle4sgc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3ml6lllnjo22oIf you're concerned about security and/or confidentiality on Zoom / Google Meet / Skype / whatever you currently use, you might be interested to know that Proton have unveiled their long-awaited 'meet' app. https://proton.me/business/blog/introducing-proton-meet06 May 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6lllnjo22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3ml6ha2t75k2m"This guy's writing seems interesting, I wonder what his philosophy work focuses on... oh." What can I say, I have a vibe. 😂06 May 2026 10:05 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6ha2t75k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mkzmqd3tpk2q"She says she has come to believe that depression “is really a form of oppression”. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/02/one-of-the-most-profound-encounters-of-my-life-could-existential-therapist-emmy-van-deurzen-change-the-way-you-think04 May 2026 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzmqd3tpk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mkphkchbvc2tI just wrote the phrase 'cadaveric spasms' in my thesis, in case anyone's looking for a name for their metal band.30 Apr 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkphkchbvc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mkkq3qdnjk2itotally coherent notes on my thesis dot jpeg28 Apr 2026 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkq3qdnjk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mkkngmhbr22vI have just realised that my thesis is making an even bolder claim than I had realised, and that this might be why my supervisors keep finding it impossible to understand where I’m coming from. …how’s your week going 😅28 Apr 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkngmhbr22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mkhxhgdmhk2xHave I spent the morning working on my thesis like a good PhD student? Yes.27 Apr 2026 11:24 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhxhgdmhk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mkfbmkyzgc22Thought this paper might be of interest to some of you: might techniques such as deep brain stimulation ('DBS') be "a threat to the very fabric of being"? That is: to what extent can we rearrange someone's selfhood before we're playing god? https://philpapers.org/archive/ZAWDOT.pdf26 Apr 2026 09:48 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfbmkyzgc22https://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mjsdddoyfc23alors je commence à lire Lacan et… euh… 😶 😁18 Apr 2026 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjsdddoyfc23https://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mjoqznidyc2dWhen you find yourself on a random Friday morning laying down lyrics over a trap beat which was not the plan AT ALL but it’s just been that kinda week… New song dropping soon? Maybe? By accident? 😅17 Apr 2026 10:52 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjoqznidyc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mjjokbguyk2mFinally creating my LinkedIn profile and stubbornly adding the "folk rituals" and oral traditions under 'Experience' and 'Education' because I refuse to let colonisers decide what counts anymore. #LandBack #Indigenize #OpreRoma www.linkedin.com/in/chindilani/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chindilani/15 Apr 2026 10:24 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjokbguyk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mjjmxjo5tc26In Australia in the early 1900s it was an arrestable offence to be an "uncontrollable child"15 Apr 2026 09:56 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjmxjo5tc26https://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mjidh4pqs22nToday I learned that one of the (many) words I have been pronouncing incorrectly because I’d only seen it written down is ‘elegiac,’ which is apparently not “ell-EE-gee-ack” but “ell-uh-jEYE-ick.”14 Apr 2026 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjidh4pqs22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mj2ys4tkxc2eAll hail the translucent goo! This is excellent news. https://thesciverse.org/new-research-shows-a-reactive-hydrogel-can-stop-diabetic-amputations-before-they-start/09 Apr 2026 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2ys4tkxc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3miyzcvqbvk2r"Maybe just one rhinestone chameleon will be enough," and other totally normal things Etsy sellers say to themselves when they're purchasing supplies.08 Apr 2026 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3miyzcvqbvk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3miue5sbiw22uRromale!! Romano film ‘Amaro Drom’ ohtoto aprilo (amaro romano divvus!) Kana avela? DzelemDzelemProduction po YouTube vai TikTok.06 Apr 2026 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3miue5sbiw22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mitda7ctq22cCe commentaire sur "Comment lire Lacan," livre de Slavoj Žižek... 😄06 Apr 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitda7ctq22chttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3miqnvkclf226- open thesis chapter document - see that it’s just over 3,500 words long - try not to freak out that 6,000 words need to be in it by the 13th - read through the current set of words - delete all the ones I don’t like - now it’s 2,837 words long #phdlife 😭05 Apr 2026 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3miqnvkclf226https://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3minzr3brlk2sMy PhD supervisor just published this paper about first-person authority over gender, i.e. why we should believe people when they tell us what gender they are. Not that this should need to be argued... https://jesp.org/index.php/jesp/article/view/444004 Apr 2026 10:31 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3minzr3brlk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3migfsdwpjk2bI read this paragraph so many times in my attempt to understand it that even my computer gave up and fell asleep 😂🤯🫠 #Lacan #PhDlife #philosophy01 Apr 2026 09:45 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3migfsdwpjk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3migc4rev4s2zThe abject horror of the realisation that Lacan is in fact highly relevant to my PhD so I'm going to have to just roll up my sleeves and work out how to read him... 🫠 #phdlife #philosophy01 Apr 2026 08:39 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3migc4rev4s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mientmkzzc23OK so I've previously read all the statistics etc., but jfc attempting to make a promotional video for my PhD, which is about pregnancy + childbirth, using stock video clips is really underlining how ALL the default options are heterosexual white people. smh31 Mar 2026 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mientmkzzc23https://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mhedwv7obs2mJust a brief PSA to anyone who might find it helpful: refried beans and wet cat food look very similar. It is therefore important that you double check which one you are holding before spooning it into your tortilla. 🤢😄18 Mar 2026 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhedwv7obs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mh3w2w6jds2fI got an email this morning informing me that 2019 was seven years ago and it turned out they're right. SEVEN YEARS?! What is this timeline.15 Mar 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh3w2w6jds2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mgzyxftoh22mtfw you present a paper about death, abuse and trauma, yet somehow by the end of the conference people are saying "we should ask Chindilani that question, she's the love and peace one." I mean, it's not the first expression that springs to mind when I'm asked to define myself, but I'll take it 😁14 Mar 2026 17:58 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgzyxftoh22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mgzyqgw7ws2mPresented at a conference for other existential psychotherapists and philosophers this afternoon, so obviously I had to dress appropriately 😁14 Mar 2026 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgzyqgw7ws2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mgo4j2yee22ubrb just gonna scream this through a loudspeaker in every street until ppl start to understand it10 Mar 2026 00:29 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgo4j2yee22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/chindilani.substack.com/post/3mgmzrbbs222l- open the doc you were working on last time - read the 207 words you wrote - delete 33 of them #phdlife09 Mar 2026 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:tztyphmhrdr7i7o7oxwup65p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmzrbbs222l