Yeahhhh!!!

Tomorrow, we’re doing the first iteration of a workshop on safety in the field. A bit anxious but excited. Happy to do it with an amazing friend too!

Proud of you, Gale!!!

Having medical trauma sucks! But I’m glad I’m now in the space and capacity to be triggered and recover.

And in the midst of an economic crisis where the Philippine peso is only worth 75% of what it used to be worth because of inflation and oil crisis! I’m alive! My brain is building new neural pathways from my experiences of survival and the care I receive from my community. I’m hopeful!

I’m effin’ proud of myself this year! Went through so much yet I’ve been living!!! Didn’t get paid for more than a month, days when I didn’t have enough money for lunch, was overloaded by demands, partner got sick - while juggling tasks, my job, and care work. Yet, I’m alive with a loving community!

It’s just nasty there now. I hit my breaking point. While I was less online there the past year, every time I went back I felt dehumanized. Like I had to appeal & remind folks there that I’m a person or that the people they’re insulting is a person. It’s sad cos I did make a lot of friends there.

Whoah! Didn’t realize this hit a nerve. I became less active the past year before I pulled the plug but I kept it because:
- my Filipino autistic community is in Twitter
- updates on Filipino issues
- decades worth of bookmarks
- evidence of someone plagiarizing my tweet in a Nature article

Okay, why does Utopia - the fictional nation - sounds really good and aspirational given the conditions of the world right now? Almost 2/3 until I finish, then Ursula K LeGuin’s essays.

7,641 islands, three stars, and a sun.

I deleted my twitter account and decided to be more active here instead. I’ve been on twitter for a decade or so now — and I’m just not a big fan of what it had become.

I realized I like conversations & bite-size knowledge-sharing more than publishing. This heavily disadvantages me as an academic. But also why I like being in social media.

Thank you for making this accessible! Your work is an inspiration!

The dissertation! 150 pages of prairie, history, & more pawpaws than you'd expect.

I've sold over 850 copies of this baby, and the world being what it is, it's far too expensive to print another edition right now.

Check it out in pdf form:
drive.google.com/file/d/104cf...

New article on 'Sustainability' out in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology! Written off the back of designing the @soasanthro.bsky.social MA Global Futures and Sustainability curriculum - thank you to our amazing students and all who supported!

I assume this game is not about a religious sect in the Philippines? Like Mike Velarde's not gonna appear in the game?

Hayes' & Kaba's Let This Radicalize You has been difficult to read. Not because it's a bad read, but because of how it exposes how terrible my experience was as a former campaigner of a grassroots organization.

I got extra copies too for a friend's kid.

I've been building my collection of children's lit in the hopes of opening a library one day.

I only know about Shaolei Ren et al's work from environmental social scientists on twitter & bsky. It's kind of eerie to me that the most accessible pages in google scholar don't have articles on the energy consumption, H2O consumption, & CO2 emission of genAI

Has anyone noticed that if you search ChatGPT AND environmental impacts, or ChatGPT AND climate change, or ChatGPT AND water consumption on Google Scholar, the first four pages show only articles with positive views of ChatGPT? Shaolei Ren et al.'s research articles don't even appear.

So many research interests, so little time.

Maligamu' means 'caring' in Pulangiyen. This is such a beautiful gift. My ex & I have been trying our best to support a Pulangiyen student in his Anthro studies. Our support is not perfect, but I hope that he is able to achieve his dreams for himself, his family, & his community.

Thank you! Will look into it. And yes, the article is in English. Here's the link: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Thank you! I'll put it in my reading list. I was also thinking of Audre Lorde's conceptualization of intimacy, which was beautifully cited in an article I read on asexuality in the Philippine diaspora.

I've learned more about care, solidarity, and collectivity from my queer platonic polycules than from any other formations I've been a part of.

Queerness is definitely not just about attraction or sexual activity. It's about forging relations and sociality beyond cisheteronormative and patriarchal norms.

7. Be more encouraging and supportive of students in their work & goals.

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6. Require less reading materials than usual but with better engagement on each one.

5. Take time to continuously assess with students about the class.