Dishevelled Shelves: Libraries, Disorder, and Artist Residencies
Libraries have long shed the antiquated stereotype of staid and silence-laden tabernacles of quiet rumination and dusty pages quietly being turned and squinted at. Though it does remain one of the last remaining bastions of intellectual freedom and a…
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Beachcombing the Entangled Shoreline: Writing About Chronic Illness During Mental Health Awareness Week
Movement (etymology): Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere, “to move”, from PIE root *meue- “to push away.” Doublet of moment and momentum. Late 14c., mevement, “change of position; passage from place to place.” In the political/artistic/social sense of “course of acts and…
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Be More Deaf Aware: Deaf Awareness Week
photo credit: SHVETS production I write this as a hearing person. I cannot speak on behalf of deaf people or their experiences. I can only write about my research and my experiences as someone who is hearing but works…
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