Shelly Saksena
A triple-major graduate in Eco, Maths, and Stats trying to infuse not-so-comfortable intersectional perspectives into the comforting-yet-ignorant debates society often engages in. Sounds heavy, I know. But well, need to vent somewhere since my dog doesn't pay much heed to me.
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