🕊️ Welcome to My Little Corner of the Internet

A personal note on starting again — slowly, honestly, and with no pressure to be anything but real.

Yo. I’m Robin — a writer and rebel, but here I’m just Robin.

You might know me through Extinction Rebellion, Revolution in the 21st Century, or my public writing and speaking — big, messy attempts to change the world. This blog is not that. This space is smaller. Quieter. A little closer to the bone.

I’m writing this after a week of migraines. Since Long Covid, my body doesn’t work the way it used to. There are good days and bad days, moments of clarity and long patches of fog. For a while, I didn’t know how to speak from this place. How to express my slow, fragile mind. The world values movement, productivity, punchy messaging. But I’m trying to build a part of my life that honours stillness, softness, and slowness. This blog is part of that.

It’s called Round Robin — like an old letter chain gathered in your desk drawers. It’s not a professional project. It’s personal — and that feels quietly radical to say, as someone from Gen Z, the so-called “anxious generation.” We’ve been raised online, trained to turn ourselves into brands, to measure our worth in metrics and constantly refine ourselves for performance. That’s partly why I quit social media during the founding of Extinction Rebellion — to step outside that exhausting loop.

But now, with illness keeping me more grounded, I’ve come to appreciate the internet again — as a space for connection, creativity, and exchange. So I’m trying a mixed path: partly personal and reflective, partly public. Let’s see where it goes.

You can expect occasional posts on the things that move me: poetry, art, books, and films that linger in my bones. Reflections on chronic illness and the strange stillness it brings. Notes on rest and slowness, on trying to live a life that makes sense even when the world doesn’t. Sometimes it’ll be journal fragments, half-formed thoughts, or small moments of beauty I want to hold up to the light.

Most posts will be public. If I really worked on writing project, I will put it up as paid to try and honour that work. If you choose to support me that way, it helps sustain this creative space — especially as I manage my energy and health. But no pressure. I’m not trying to build an empire here. Just a place to breathe, to write, and maybe, to be understood.

If that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, I’d love to have you along.

Thanks for being here. I don’t know exactly where this will go — but I’m glad to be writing again.

With care,
Robin

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