if you'd like a copy, let me know! happy to share! i had to interlibrary loan my own article, published yesterday, to get a PDF. what a world 🫠

and nine inch nails still rules

i am also trying to write in ways that cannot be easily replicated by AI (e.g., AI can't know what it feels like to lose a mom). i am affirming that writing about difficult topics is still possible and important. i need to know it is. i haven't quite figured out this writing yet, but working on it!

this is also the most personal thing i've written, and i am inspired by so many incredible writers that have been able to seamlessly blend the personal and academic through auto-theory, etc. this is the first of a few pieces that intersects palliative care and climate/energy justice work.

this piece puts into words much of what i've felt while processing the death of the person who loved me most in this world. it's a jumping off point for me to begin articulating what i see as 'palliative political ecology.' what are the socioecological politics of easing planetary suffering?

i think a lot about the 'point' of my work, and, within a broader context of the neoliberalization of what i 'offer' to society, today affirmed that what i am 'good at' may just simply be holding space for my students to think and feel out loud. today, against it all, that felt truer than ever.

today, our discussion was set against the backdrop of a whirlwind of realtime texts and notifications - this grant is frozen, this policy will impact these students in material ways, a judge blocked this or that temporarily - and the power of 'us' and 'them' thinking was so powerfully on display.