We are very excited to announce a new addition to our team! Zara will step us as our Strategic Advisor and help develop and improve the ways we can reach our goals ✨ To introduce and welcome her, we've asked a couple of questions:
SUPERRR: A good way to get to know someone is via their side projects and hobbies. What are some of your current side projects, Zara?
Zara: The side projects that take up the most of my time are my two small children! They’re a very rewarding project though, haha. And my dream/ambitious side project is actually related to them: together with a friend I’m slowly working on an idea for a children’s book series, which explains key concepts to children in an interesting and fun way, from an abolitionist perspective. Other past times include reading – I keep a semi-regular track of my favourite books over on Storygraph – and having people over for dinner, I love having a big busy dinner table!
SUPERRR: With Superrr Lab we are thinking a lot about the future(s). What is an object/or application that does not yet exist – but something that you would like to have at your disposal in a preferable digital future? Something you would use every day and cannot imagine living without?
Zara: This is perhaps part of the very point of memories being fleeting and special – but I would love something to properly capture all sensory feelings of a particular point in time, so you can revisit them later on. More than just a photo, it would be something that can properly transport you back to a particular moment – the smells, the feelings, the view, everything.
SUPERRR: What's your biggest energy sucker these days?
Zara: I’m not sure if this is really an energy sucker or just a constant pain and disappointment, but global politics – specifically, the way in which the world is watching Palestine and now Lebanon be occupied and treated so unnecessarily violently, and watching global governance mechanisms fail so completely.
SUPERRR: What is a small humble change you would like to see in the world? How can we work towards it?
Zara: So many of the bigger changes I’d like to see in the world seem to start from a very basic one: being kind to your neighbours and those around you, and having compassion for whatever they’re going through, and being there for them. I feel like if we all started there, a lot of good and necessary things could ripple outwards.
SUPERRR: Things we should all read/know about! Please share some of your favorite projects, texts, links, inspirations with us:
Zara:
My dear friend and feminist activist Subha just published this fantastic report, on fascist and fundamentalist narratives in South Asia and Southeast Asia regions.
One of my favourite hopeful projects for the future is the Numun Fund – I’m on the review committee for grants and reading through the applications gives me so so much hope and inspiration!
I love Mimi’s work for many reasons, but in this case, for articulating so eloquently a concept – the “unknowable” – in a way that makes me rethink the way I think about things.
SUPERRR: Last but not least, what's your favourite Meme?
Zara: ‘be honest’ has been all over my Instagram since their documentary came out!
SUPERRR: Thank you so much Zara, and once again: Welcome on board!