Hello, I am starting a blog!

As social media platforms implode and news sources become increasingly unintelligible, I have been enjoying the return of blogging and email subscription newsletters. What relief I feel to read a thoughtfully written post by a friend or someone I admire amidst an otherwise mind-numbing blizzard of ads, AI nonsense, and algorithmic interference.

Now feels like the time for me to join in this mode of sharing for a few reasons. First of all, I have been engaging with some fascinating material lately and need an outlet to articulate my feelings about it all. This may come in the form of book recommendations, short essay, and personal narrative. My network of interests include decolonization and postcolonial studies, folklore and mythology, cultural studies, stories about land, and media theory.

Secondly, I am migrating my website here to WordPress because the three-year subscription I paid to Wix in February 2023 is finally coming to an end. Wix is an Israeli company, something I didn’t have a scooby about prior to October 2023, and which I am now boycotting in solidarity with the BDS movement.

WordPress, being one of the old school open source blogging platforms, just kindles that special Millennial warmth that makes me want to copy-paste some CSS and send out a newsletter…

Not least, I am keen to share some of my creative projects directly with a list of people who might care. Occasional poems, comics, announcements.

My heart in your inbox. Would you like that?