Month: April 2017
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“Nobody lives everywhere; everybody lives somewhere.”
I am tasked with writing a review of the book Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Not feeling able to actually do that, I have written this instead. This is because of course, it is impossible for me to write a review of anything Donna Haraway writes; it would be like a jellyfish…
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Grappling with the trouble & in the wake
In March, we took the ferry from Bellingham, Washington, to Haines, Alaska. Getting to Haines was the last link in a chain of intense, nourishing, lovely time with friends – a wonderful and a sad thing about this driving trip that we’ve been on from Ottawa looping around the continent is seeing the distribution of…
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A politics of imperfection, a politics of responsibility.
The kind folks over at the University of Minnesota Press blog posted this short piece, and I’m reproducing it here, too. Lately it seems like every day brings a new bad thing for anyone not invested in white supremacy and capitalism. As the tweet went: “First they came for the Latinos, Muslims, women, gays, poor…