Are you in Alaska? Because the instigation of the program is super racist.

Matoaka/Amanute (Pocahontas) was a child who was kidnapped from her tribe and brought to England at the age of 13, where she was married off and died at age 21. Using her name as a fucking insult, regardless of the context is the worst.

I am decent when it comes to last minute deadlines, but I’m now at the point where even that threat isn’t making the writing flow. My program is not super helpful when it comes to guidelines, so I’m floating a bit without a net. Also, the project has morphed into something so completely out of my realm of comfort…

Happy Thanksgiving all! I have very conflicted feelings on the holiday itself, but I’m really enjoying the supposed time off. I’m in the midst of finishing my dissertation which is a super long time coming (I had a year off for family illness) but really slow going. Any tips for writing fast? I know what I’m…

People also have very different levels of reaction to bed bugs (and other bug bites); different studies have shown from 30-60% of people have no reaction upon being bitten. No reaction means no detection until it’s a huge problem. So, I’d do an inspection just to be sure.

Philly has some awesome places to eat, depending on what you are interested in. I highly recommend any place by Michael Solomonov, especially Zahav, if you have any love for Israeli/Mediterranean. I’m just back in the city from a few years out, but I’m a big fan of Barbuzzo and a million little brunch places,…

Ooh, nice! Still a bit too limited in cup size for me, but I might risk a larger band size to try out the fit. I like the sequined ones.

I worked for a catholic hospital when I was younger and while I have issues with the availability of various services being filtered through a religious lens, the nuns who ran the administration were, without a doubt, committed to a mission of social justice. Of the ones I spent time with personally, most were …

Was it Kim Tallbear? She is an indigenous scholar of science and technology, currently at the University of Alberta and she published a book called Native American DNA on UMN Press a year or two ago. She’s great!

I’m flying from NYC to Seattle at about the right time. Hoping to catch it in the air, but I’m not sure what, if anything, we will actually see.

While I welcome this sort of exploration of an AU-US, I too wonder about the inclusion or likely exclusion of native peoples. I think it could be interesting if they would explore palimpsest of violences the US is built upon. I mean, making up for the violence of slavery by giving away land stolen by genocidal means,…

I just watched the first three episodes of Legion on a plane and I’m obsessed. I want to watch them over and over.

Ha! Former evangelical escapee, who is finishing up my Ph.D. in anthro. Though I posit my interest in anthropology is more due to the anti-evolution videos (dinosaurs walking along with humans because footprints, I guess) I was forced to watch before church. Even though I’m not a biological anthropologist, I dig…

I bought myself a subscription to Sassy during a junior high magazine fundraising drive. I loved it, primarily for the chance to briefly escape from a small Alaska city and imagine myself as an urbane, liberated city woman, who got to hang out with cute bands. My mom read one issue with an article about Wiccan…

If this family was any smarter, I would think it was a sacrificial lamb strategy. But no, that would require doing more than responding to the news cycle and only the news cycle (quite literally, the fox news cycle). There is no strategy, they are just this stupid.

There’s been a lot of atypical black bear behavior in Alaska this year, including one death of a teenager. Something about the season is pushing them into more heavily populated places earlier than normal. In SE Alaska, it’s been a colder spring and summer than the last three years, so that might have something to…

As a counter point, outbreaks have already occurred and our millennia of disease epidemics are not quite up to snuff with our ability to travel globally, much faster than the incubation period of some of the biggies. We certainly have better supportive therapies and more treatments than in the past, but that doesn’t…

What is it about white American douchebros that makes them think any piece of history is for their own use/amusement? Wait. I know the answer.

They had an episode of My Favorite Murder on this recently. So incredibly sad. Joshua Sawyer’s mother kept his medical records for over 35 years, after most records for any case that Jones could have been responsible for had long since been tossed. He had been admitted after a fire at the family home where all…

I think he should ask permission. If you read my other comments, you would know that I expect artists who take from other cultures to at least make the efforts to respect the creators of the art forms they so love. It’s also not like this is an isolated occurrence. So much counterfeit Native art is produced each…