Chicago: Know your rights. www.icirr.org/fsn?fbclid=I...

As Breast Cancer Awareness Month begins, anthropologist Arianna Huhn describes her experience fighting breast cancer and her decision to “go flat," in an essay for @sapiens.org. #breastcancerawareness #goingflat www.sapiens.org/culture/wome...

Anthropologist Sophie Chao writes a beautiful reflection on the power & responsibility of narrative in this guest post for SAR (@sarsf.bsky.social) based on time spent together in an immersive creative nonfiction seminar w/@sapiens.org. #anthropology #narrative sarweb.org/blog-words-a...

Just wrapped up my course "Working with Authors" through the University of Chicago. Key takeaways: editors do SO MUCH MORE than simply "fix errors." Freelance editing is all about the power of relationships. Managing our time & talents benefits everyone! I strive for mutuality & momentum. #editing

As temperatures drop, most of us head indoors! But some people find joy & pleasure in a cold-water plunge! A researcher in Cambridge interviews regulars at the Jesus Lido community pool to find out why. A new piece I edited for @sapiens.org. #successfulaging www.sapiens.org/culture/cold...

Amid deadly protests in Indonesia, take a deep dive into why there's been so much mistrust among delivery drivers, on-demand mobile app companies & the government, told through the lens of anthropologists Sheri Lynn Gibbings, Elan Lazuardi & Robbie Peters. #Indonesia www.sapiens.org/culture/indo...

Professor Katie Ranhorn writes beautifully on working with an "archaeologies of the heart" as an approach to studying deep history in communities within #Tanzania. #archaeology #paleontology #representation #localhistories #communityarchaeology #eastafrica www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

What happens when environmental conservation efforts overlook the rights and needs of humans? Anthropologist Amir Sohel explains how tiger protection in the Sundarbans often ignores forest-dwelling people who live alongside tigers. #anthropology #humantigerconflict www.sapiens.org/culture/tige...

Just finished reading "The Philippines is Not a Small Country," Gideon Lasco's excellent book of personal essays on a wide-range of topics, from tattoos to food, selfies to drug addiction, it's all there, nearly every subject of interest to humanity! Great read! www.goodreads.com/book/show/55...

Have you ever read "The Clan of the Cave Bear"? If so, you're one step closer to thinking like a scientist. Anthropologist @emilylenajones.bsky.social explains why for @sapiens.org in this beautiful personal essay on the overlap between #fiction & #science. www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

How did the COVID-era surgical facemask become a fashion statement in Pakistan? Read all about it in this fascinating essay by anthropologist Zainab Najeeb! It was a pleasure editing this piece and learning more about modesty #fashion for @sapiens.org. #anthropology www.sapiens.org/culture/face...

Tonight, I watched a young man lay down a prayer mat in a parking lot next to the Goodwill in Skokie and perform the evening prayer as the sun set. #prayer

When I was a digital newsroom editor, I witnessed the impact of vicarious trauma on mostly young, intrepid freelancers who took on stories way beyond their capacity to cope with what they'd encounter in the field: www.theguardian.com/science/2023...

A personal essay on my encounter with a psychic medium, how it healed me in what felt like an instant. It's still hard to comprehend what actually occurred, so I wrote about it: #healing #grief #motherlove psyche.co/stories-of-c...

To make the strange familiar, or make the familiar strange? A great question on the work of anthropologists raised by journalist Brian Goldstone, speaking on his new book, "There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America." #housingcrisis #Shomelessness

People used to travel to "see the world." Now they travel for the world to see them, thanks to social media. An insight from Gideon Lasco's fascinating essay collection, "The Philippines is not a Small Country." #travel #socialmedia #performance

Played my first game of Mah Jong in Skokie with other enthusiasts and it was a blast—still so much learn. Time to get my first Mah Jong card for 2025. It’s good through April.

i'm on the lookout for high-protein meals that don't take too long to prep: so far, it's been lemony chickpea salad w/feta, tuna patties, cabbage & carrots, lentil salad w/feta, soft-boiled eggs, honey-sesame-soy chickpea slaw with cilantro & chopped peanuts, roasted marinated eggplant with tofu.

"Enter the Reception Room, and you will see a mismatched jumble of old furniture washed by the dim blue emitting from fluorescent overhead lights." On the surrealism & absurdity of bureaucratic drudgery. #India #anthropolgy @allegralab.bsky.social @sapiens.org www.sapiens.org/culture/bure...

On quieter, less obvious forms of state violence: "Salt and Paper in Bureaucratic Jerusalem." www.sapiens.org/culture/isra...

An epic essay on the tangled roots of corruption in South Africa from legal anthropologist and decolonial scholar Nicole van Zyl for @sapiens.org. www.sapiens.org/culture/corr...

Getting suspended from Threads is actually a blessing. I’ve been trying to reduce my social media anyway — it just makes it easier for me, so thanks! I still have no idea what policies I violated in my infrequent posts, but the break has honestly been a welcome relief.

Join us tomorrow July 16 for a chat with biological anthropologist Agustin Fuentes on his new book, "Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary," hosted by @sapiens.org! #sexisaspectrum #biology #anthropology

Snapshots of Losing Jenna by Kali Rubaii: An anthropologist offers a lens on how losses from #war dramatically alter a family—and a #society. www.sapiens.org/culture/anth...

A fantastic all-star line-up of anthropologists in SAPIENS' 5-Questions Summer Series, kicking off with Agustin Fuentes, with his new book, "Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary," July 16. Join us @sapiens.org! #anthropologists #communityconversations #deepdialogue

Why Do Swallows Fly to the Korean DMZ? "The closer we got to the heavily militarized border, the possibility of ever arriving seemed further away." A beautiful essay by T. Yejoo Kim @sapiens.org www.sapiens.org/culture/kore...

a heatwave mangles and strangles the day into a straight-up emergency!

I left the United States in 2008, returned ten years later. I'm just beginning to realize how much I missed in terms of America's cultural evolution (regression) in that stretch of time when any semblance of a shared truth began to fractalize & shatter. Reading "Death of Truth" offers key insights.

sentence as laboratory, not a performance. thank you, ocean vuong. #writing #sentencelevel #writinglife #amwriting

Undone. Un-edge. Un-dead. Unborn. Noting a trend in the undoing of words, reversals of meaning, a return to returning!

Spent all of July once with a poet in Vermont and was reminded of another simple truth in the literary sphere — sometimes we pass through each others’ lives like comets and that’s all it takes. 💫

Brilliant essay by @ceciliapad.bsky.social on forager rhythms and changing with the seasons.

Meditation on a walk through Georgia O’Keeffe’s kitchen: open.substack.com/pub/travelfa...

Link rot — anyone who produces digital content will eventually experience this: www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2...

I’m writing about a loaded meeting with a poet at a cafe in Addis; a spiritual encounter with a psychic medium; an unfortunate killing within a Rastafarian community in Zanzibar. I write what I see and why it matters now to me to say it. #amwriting

Battling a cold this week kept me sequestered from the world and now I can identify at least three unique bird songs from my open window. Bless the birds for keeping my company during the long, solo slog back to health. ❤️‍🩹

honestly, heard: substack.com/@ziwe/note/c...

We’re here! Join SAPIENS on BlueSky: @sapiens-org.bsky.social A digital anthropology magazine exploring all things human. #anthropology #sapiens

Just had a meaningful conversation with my team about social media and the relationships we want to sustain via these platforms. It’s not easy to navigate, so many layers of compromise. #socialmedia #digitalpublishing

I’m here, not here. Why do we think this social media platform won’t fall into the same traps & trips & tricks as all the others?

Will there one day be social media sites made up entirely of hybrid AI-human accounts who co-manufacture & co-generate conflict & artificial tensions all day long and that's just all it will ever be forever more?

To those of you who use dehumanizing language to characterize Jews or Palestinians — shame on you. Getting through this horror requires unwavering humanity. What happens in Israel and Palestine deeply affects millions of people. Stay alert, expand your awareness, stay kind.

Deeply grateful for everyone who has checked in with me privately and via social media over the last few days. I have had to field some wildly inappropriate commentary from people and organizations.

To thine own self be blue (moon).

I’m here. But why!