Discomfort is a moment of catalyst. Unfortunately, ours is not a culture that "learns" from love and compassion - it is one that learns from strife. And so it is that we are situated within a discipline, and a craft (more generally), that critiques before...
I was invited to participate in two projects this year related to race and diversity in the department. One was directed at growing our diversity and the other was about having discussions about race and diversity in the department (and the discipline more widely). They...
I've been turned down for funding 10 times. I have only one more application in review, and then, that's it. In the meantime, i've had two articles rejected. I used to be indignant, now ...
Geography is sexy. It offers multiple entry ways to the things we love to study. It opens up conversations across ideas, making room for the intricate wages of living and dying. But my dazzling understanding of the discipline is slowly tarnishing. I don't think that...
This holiday season i happened into a conversation with two men - one with a PhD (i think?) in sustainable design and another working at Microsoft. We were chatting about graduate school, people we knew in graduate school, etc. What struck me was that while...