entangled hopes
“Matrilineal” is really a codeword for the ways in which mimesis of settler forms does not extinguish ‘Amis claims to particularity and self-determination. But what else does matirlineal mean in Continue Reading →
Tag: hopeful indigeneity
looking like a foreigner
How might we see concrete houses as something other than ruins, as haunted by something other than settler projects? I suggest that we juxtapose the haunting image of the Continue Reading →
something to try
this piece works on material with which my readers might be familiar, but in a different way. i’ve been wondering whether a mode of writing might be to create an Continue Reading →
For What We Can Hope? part three: houses as mediators of hope
*note: some of this material reworks and rewrites some earlier appearing on this blog, but with a slightly different perspective We can see what Lear has called radical hope in Continue Reading →
For What Can We Hope? part two: radical hope
radical hope As I look at solafo and listen to the stories of the ‘Amis women and men who built and lived in them, I am often reminded of Jonathan Continue Reading →
