Category: Recognition
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The Instrument
Lately, I’ve been thinking about embodied, situated knowledge. What does it really mean? How do I explain it? How do I relate it to the information literacy instruction sessions I am accumulating on my docket for the upcoming fall semester? I have bits and pieces, here and there. Arranging and rearranging them in order to…
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The Signal
Something about that Wellness Wheel made me itchy and annoyed. It took me a few milliseconds to understand why. I really have no quarrel with mental health care. In fact, I am an advocate for it. God knows we need language for forms of suffering that people were once just expected to endure, and without…
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The Dance
I pay attention to the men behind the curtainI was born in the horns of a bullI know the patter, who it serves and who it’s hurting This weekend, I needed to find a new show to take the place of another that just had its season finale last week. A very ordinary, everyday way…
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“Your House” Is a Crime Scene: A Forensic, Feminist, and Unhinged Analysis of Alanis Morissette’s Creepiest Track
Summer 2026. I’ve been revisiting my college days, watching Reality Bites, listening to Sheryl Crow, and thinking about my days at San Francisco State University, staying up with a printer that wouldn’t print my work that’s due in class the next morning. Of course, Alanis Morissette’s breakthrough album is the crowning jewel. It most certainly…
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Utang Sa Loob: On What Made Me
The Occasion In the summer of 2017, a magazine story circulated about a Filipino family and the katulong who had lived and worked with them for fifty-six years. She had started as a young child, gone to the United States with the family, cared for their home and their children. She never married. Never had…
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You Can’t Take the Sky From Me
This Firefly poster has been hanging on my office wall since 2018. I’ve been seeing it almost everyday since. But today, it’s as if I’d just laid eyes on it for the first time. The quote at the bottom feels like it just found me. Today. Right now. It did in that way certain lines…
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You Never Truly Quit: Belonging, Meaning, and Maslow With Better UI
A YouTube essayist named Kneecap Jake made a video called You Never Truly Quit World of Warcraft. He could have stopped at addiction. The algorithm would have rewarded him for it by sending many viewers his way. Instead, he kept pulling the thread until he found what was actually there: belonging, meaning, competence, purpose. Four…
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The Optional Chain: Fandral Staghelm and the Question Nobody Had to Ask
In the Cenarion Enclave in Darnassus, there is a quest chain that most players have completed without thinking twice about it. The Arch Druid, imperious, shirtless, radiating barely concealed contempt for your presence, had a research program. Morrowgrain. A mysterious herb. Grow it from Tharlendris seeds in Un’Goro soil, bring him ten, receive a goody…
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The Faculty Governance Gala: Where the Cricket Chorus Performs Their Greatest Hits
In the hallowed, slightly drafty halls of Biblios Heights Stacks Academic Library, “Governance” isn’t just a series of meetings—it’s a performance. And once a year, when the budget cycles align and the institutional mediation is at its peak, we host the Faculty Governance Gala. The gala is the only time the Cricket Chorus leaves the…