Care in Comfort, Care in DiscomfortAs I’ve spent the past week reflecting on our class’s experience in the Black Power Naps exhibit by artists Navild Acosta and Sosa, I’ve […]
Care & FeelingsThrough these past few weeks of readings and discussions, I keep finding my mind circling around to negative feelings and what to do with […]
Thank you for this visual reflection, Brie. The sketch of the pillars got me thinking along other metaphorical lines: pillars are key for support, but they are also rigid and inflexible. Maybe that tracks—maybe p […]
I think this is so important in a CUNY context. Another question that I have alongside this is how to work in a way that doesn’t lead straight to burnout. Those systems that deny fundamental resources—whether l […]
I’m also thinking a lot about Risam’s idea of diversity work as a ‘trap’. I was struck in this read through by the idea of the double-bind, that this is work that is both desired and not desired. That double-bind […]
YES, this is such a tricky tradeoff. I’m reminded of this 2011 piece by Bethany Nowviskie, “A Skunk in the Library” (https://nowviskie.org/2011/a-skunk-in-the-library/): > A “skunkworks” (all one word) des […]
Oof. And building on both of your thoughts, someone recently shared this Chronicle of Higher Ed interview with Roxane Gay. The quote they called to my attention was this: “..if a university can only succeed […]
beautiful, d. “there was just each other. living disobedient, bold, hopeful, scared, hungry lives.” Networks of care and foreclosed possibility; power and oppression alongside fragile possibility.
YES to restructuring spaces in order to support basic needs. Grad programs sometimes ask me how to better support students’ overall wellbeing, and a big part of my answer is just to give them more money. Puppies […]
Nelson, I like your comment about not stressing if you did not opt into a particular situation. With apologies for the weird analogy, a parenting book I read recently focused on the idea that “you don’t have to go […]
Jen, this is fantastic! What a thoughtful and thorough consideration of the different valences of care. I’d love to look at this during today’s discussion.
I love this, Brie. Especially the fact that it’s spring, that new buds are emerging, and there’s a vibrance as well as a fragility in the new life. I’m thinking too about the optional article on attunement, and […]
D, I appreciate the acknowledgement that the piece by Jade Davis sparked feelings of tension for you. It does for me, too, which is one of the reasons I wanted to assign it in the context of this class—I find it r […]
Thanks, Tuka—it’s really interesting to hear the way your mind moved through all these concepts. Maybe we could do some sketching/mindmapping in class today as a warm up activity.
Sean, I value hearing about your experiences but I don’t think that the readings were suggesting that we should befriend students in the classroom. Could you draw some closer connections to the texts themselves?
Yes, d! I love both of those books and am thrilled that you brought them into conversation with these ideas. It also calls to mind something Natalie Loveless writes in How to Make Art at the End of the World: […]
