I am Maan Gail Manigsaca, a Filipino immigrant in Canada working as a commercial cleaner while navigating temporary status. I also build two social experiments: Exhausted Bodies, which focuses on worker‑first body infrastructure, and Kingston NetworkBuddy, a peer‑led mutual aid space for newcomers and denizens.
WhooshBrain is my public field notebook. It is where I park small observations, questions, and experiments from inside precarity: how my body feels after 18,900 reps per shift, what is and is not said in newcomer circles, how wellness and productivity advice skips manual workers, and what it means to live as a denizen in a country I was taught to look up to.
This is not a polished essay site. There are no stock photos of people laughing at whiteboards. Entries are short, imperfect, and written when there is a bit of capacity left after work and caregiving. Over time, these notes help me see patterns in how precariat workers and denizens live, think, and feel—and they loop back into my main lab at gailmanigsaca.com, where I turn this material into clearer experiments and models.
If some of this sounds uncomfortably close to your own days, you are welcome to read along quietly for now.
Later, when the space is ready, you may be able to add your own notes—so the field notebook is not just mine.
📩 Contact: gail.manigsaca@gmail.com
🌐 Main lab: http://www.gailmanigsaca.com
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