The AICUF Story!

We are all born someone.  Imagine you wake up in a room full of boxes. These boxes are labelled - “ girl, daughter, child, grandchild, neighbour, classmate, student, teacher, friend, colleague, acquaintance, stranger, client, advisor, parent, a grandparent, crone… someone unknown.”  Each box has its own set of rules; compartments called “identity” and “label”. The thing you’re supposed to be and the thing you’re supposed to do when you’re in that box. You need to jump across these boxes as the world demands you to, sometimes, even juggle multiple boxes at the same time. Imagine doing that since your first breath, imagine running all your life across these aisles of boxes, no breaks, no stop, no reflection, no self.  That is what society has become to us.  We have a name, gender, class, caste, religion, nationality, ethnicity, culture, allegiance assigned to us before we’re born - a status in the family, a role in society. We are set into categories or boxes of labels...