Elephant feeding and bathing floods my Instagram feed every time someone goes to Thailand. And I love elephants. But grad school has me poor and busy; a Thailand trip is just not going to happen. Which is why I was intrigued when my mom described to me elephant feeding at the Monterey Zoo. It just […]
Category: Photo Essays
We were somewhere on the edge of the Anza Borrego desert when the diuretics started to take hold. My friend Jean said something like, “We should pull over,” and I replied with something along the lines of, “Sounds good; I’m a pro.” We had a purpose for being so far east: Salvation Mountain. East of […]
I want to start this by saying: I love a good fairytale transformation. And by “transformation” I don’t mean a frog turning into a prince or vice versa — I mean retellings of old tales with a new lens or viewpoint as a way of transforming traditional thoughts about gender, power, and sexuality to make a […]
Recently, I’ve been thinking about luck. During fall semester of grad. school, I read “Uncertainty and the Use of Magic” by Richard B. Felson and George Gmelch, an anthropology report discussing the use of “magic” to overcome outcomes — think: using a lucky pencil on a test for a better score or wearing a certain jersey […]