A transcription of a guest lecture given at the University of Bristol for the Liberal Arts module, Critical Writing in the Humanities. * I am a recent graduate from the Liberal Arts programme here at the University of Bristol. I majored in English Literature, and combined this with satellite study of Art History, History, and [...]
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The heart of a pigeon, and other postcards of Peacebuilding
A reflection of my time in Bosnia & Herzegovina, written for Most-Mira and CUNY's Project on Peacebuilding 2018: Democracy and Post-Conflict Politics in BiH. For more info on this exceptional course: http://www.mostmiraproject.org * I press my forehead against the window of our van as we enter Bosnia & Herzegovina. The landscape swills, filling my locked eyes [...]
To: My Big Brother, Tom
To: My Big Brother Tom From: Your Little Sister Phoebe Cc: Our Friend Autism Subject: Some things I thought I aut’ to share Dear Tom, “For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.” – A.A. Milne, The World of Winnie The Pooh. Oh don’t look like that, I’m only kidding. [...]
So long, Montréal: on houses, homes and how to begin to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Phoebe: i found it so weird being at home, because nothing had changed, and it was like canada was this weird fantasy world that i surely hands [hadn’t] lived in for four months but totally had like when the pevensie children spend their whole lives in narnia then come out and it’s the moment after [...]
Letters from Montréal: October 2017
What I talk about when I talk about 'What I talk about when I talk about running' It’s been a while, hasn’t it? And yet it feels like no time at all. I’ve been in Montréal on my year abroad for almost two months now, but every so often it seems like two years or [...]
Neverland revisited
“Why can't you fly now, mother *** I'm 19 now, and I've devloped a rather dubious (and completely subjective) sociological theory which explains why this really is the worst age in the world. It's a carefully constructed and well thought-out social observation which demonstrates a keen lack of scientific reasoning, but balanced by a healthy [...]
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