In euro-american academia, the arts, media, politics, and literature we are enthralled, obsessed with two things: ‘innovation’ and individuality. The triumph of individual will to manifest something new new new trumps everything else. Granting agencies often focus on a single Principle Investigator to the exclusion of whole teams of human and more-than-human beings who make… Read More

Just when I thought I could not be cracked open any further, when I’d felt I’d swam the depths of the rivers in my veins, it hits me. I love. I love my family. I love my kin. I love the stories that animate us and weave us together. I love the adventures I’ve had.… Read More

I tried to write something this evening, and as I laboured over the 613 words that I eked out about building academic community, I decided to abandon ship and start over. I want to sit with the sound of paddles dipping into cool lake water forever. I want to glide at the water’s surface and… Read More