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.
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…
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.
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.
There were a lot of twists and turns in those last few months, what with the global pandemic and usual grad school rigmarole, but my thesis was completed, defended, revised, and finally submitted this month. Before I go over some of those later experiences, this: “The Social Lives of Dementia Caregivers” is complete and available! […]
To my surprise and relief, it seems people are talking about care. Mutual care, communal care, care of families, care about political constituents, self-care. At least some people are seeing what I’m seeing: We Are All Caregivers Now, and what comes after depends on how well we all care for one another now. In my […]
Have you stopped yet to overthink about this whole mess and ask, individually, what even are we? We, who are not sick, may never get sick, but who nonetheless are practicing social distance in the interest of others? We might never be quarantined and yet we are an active participant, lacking any communal context for […]
My content analysis goes slowly, but I got a boost when I decided to update my coding sheets and go ahead and record the data from the first 10 chapters. Up to this point, I’ve been focused primarily on secondary data, meaning that someone else conducted research and then shared their data with the public […]
Theories of Care 