made it really hard to tell when I “finished” grad school and when I “started” being a community researcher, but in order to streamline my networks a little, I’ve created a newsletter for my colleagues and friends. Since the first one is all-encompassing, I figured I may as well share it here, too.
Trying something new: Asking my community to care back!
I am ready to articulate my ontological resistance to so-called AI. It’s not just because it’s over-branded hype (coopting a concept from science fiction and futurism for what is basically an obtuse, upscaled algorithm). It’s not just because of the massive, uncredited resource extraction (both of human creators and of all the raw materials it […]
Scholars never spent much time on Strauss & Howe, but their generational theory has lived on in public opinion. I’ve been grateful for Pew, who have made age cohorts as sound as the science allows. But I see them saying the science isn’t strong enough to sustain.
For the past couple of years, I’ve been collecting links and information to share with my network. The content broadly falls into four categories — Dementia Care, Gender Expansive Identities, Academic, and COVID-19 — though tangents and overlaps abound. Here I share some of them to help the newsletter be easy to find and share.
I just learned of and wanted to share an obituary for someone you’ve probably never heard of: A couple of lifetimes ago, fresh out of college and still using the name I was given at birth, I worked for the organization Mike Pertschuk and David Cohen founded and oversaw for about twenty years. Working more […]
I’m coming out at the intersection of being neurodivergent and genderqueer…
Caregivers can give you all the evidence you need: people do not care about care.
It’s a personal narrative with citations. And maybe some theory. And some equivocating over the imperfections of memory. And maybe dead academics sharing a hot tub with the author.
Isolation, worry, boredom, disappointment, and hopelessness are not new to many caregivers, so how do we work around them?
Theories of Care 