Treasury:
1) A home for lifechanging texts, arresting encounters, and other treasures. 2) An experiment in mapping and worldview-building, a way to refer back and something to share. 3) A curiosity cabinet of a mythological magpie.
Paper: inviting a decolonial praxis for future imaginaries of nature: Introducing the Entangled Time Tree. Explores a decolonized approach for looking back in order to imagine and create the future. Image on the tree trunk is figure 2 from the paper, linked.
Book: James by Percival Everett. A necessary complexifying and reimagining of a classic that shaped so many of our imaginations, and on top of that, impossible to put down and true heartbreak to lose the company of James once the book ends.
Book: Recollections of my nonexistence, by Rebecca Solnit, my queen of compassion, social justice, and informed hope. It’s a memoir, but one that looks persistently outward: at the city of San Francisco, at the American West, and at the world as she tenaciously writes herself into existence. In her experiences becoming a writer, but also a feminist, an activist, a cultural commentator, an environmentalist she is always in relation to others, human and non. On a personal level, she manages to put into words many elements of my own experience in my 20s and 30s that gave rise to feelings of invisibility, shame, anger, fear, and inadequacy. I was also thrilled and honoured to find that I lived, for a couple months, on the same block in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park where she wrote so many of her earlier works.
In progress at the rate of ~ 1x/week.