nika on a/5 year/s

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sept 2025 – New Start

We started this Patreon account together with David to find support for our Anthropology for Kids project. After he passed away, I mostly wrote about him — and, probably, about loneliness. Two years after his passing, the David Graeber Institute was set up in London and it became my family. I stopped writing here, and I owe an apology to those who followed us back then. I barely wrote anything for the last five years, except for the project description for DGI. As my life had collapsed in a moment, it was confusing to figure out how to move forward.

Now it’s been five years since David’s passing. An anniversary Carnival4David just took place at Rowley Way in London. I’m absolutely determined — if not to go back to my previous life (that’s probably impossible), then to start a new one. I will definitely keep working on the children’s books of Anthropology for Kids (in a new version, Made Differently series) and on the Visual Assemblies project that David and I began.

And here’s our big news: the David Graeber Institute is slowly moving from London to East Africa — closer to the places where David first began his research. Our plan to relocate to the Caribbean didn’t work out. After we make one last visit there in December 2025, I’ll tell that story in more detail. I believe it will be entertaining. But as the saying goes — whatever happens is always for the best. East Africa is an extraordinary place.

madagascar.. madagascar love.. et al

I want to use this blog to share what this move feels like, mixing my impressions with excerpts from David’s Madagascar diaries that we’re studying at DGI.

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nika on a/3 year/s

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be you.

a quiet revolution

nika on a/5 year/s

doing detox (self-talk)..