navigating beyond the old maps
And so, I was recently privileged to receive a registration waiver for the CNU27 conference in Louisville. I was delighted to be able to go, delighted to explore Louisville, and variably delighted to participate in some of the sessions. But…
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Recently, I was privileged to receive a registration waiver for the CNU27 conference in Louisville. I was delighted to be able to go, delighted to explore Louisville, and variably delighted to participate in some of the sessions. But there are…
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In some media I’ve consumed recently, a woman speaker made a casual side remark that men act to act, and women act in context. I don’t know if those two categories are gendered, but I do recognize them. I have…
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In my final semester of a dual graduate degree, I am engaged in two planning activities which are not quite real projects, but also not completely thought-exercises. They are also not quite professional practice, nor completely academic. These categories matter…
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One of the advantages in looking at community organizing and development through the field of social work is that it consistently invites you to dilate the lens from micro to macro. I am always intrigued, for example, by how communities…
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Sublimating Suffering & the Collective Unconscious When considering the various manifestations of the imagination during the early Middle Ages, such as visual art, literature, folklore and visions, one notices a certain Hell-centric obsession. The Apocalypse of St. Paul was but…
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<align=just>I moved to Detroit partly in response to a subconscious nudge which can never genuinely be broken down in rational terms: these nudges are Gestalt. But mentally, I expected Detroit to present every form of social questioning, and so it…
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Detroit is a unique city in that, aesthetically, it’s not a city at all. It looks, to an eye trained for urban markers, like a suburb which has a size problem and unusual industrial impact. Few commercial corridors exist in…
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I lived in diaspora from 2011-2014, traveling extensively while working internationally and engaging in barter agreements for housing while I went through my first post-bac program. When I entered my current graduate degree program and finally settled into my own…
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