xx Jess
For a long time, I haven’t felt like I’ve had only one physical place that has felt like home. There’s a bench between some large tree’s near Lake Huron where I’ve spent many summers for the past eighteen years where I feel at home. I feel at home in my Gramma’s living room on Christmas […]
Read More “Home is Where the Heart Is”: Body Practice as World MakingI wrote the final comprehensive exam for my PhD on September 9, 2017. Yesterday, October 27, I felt as though I had enough time to recover from the energy and stress it took to prepare and write the exam. It has been an untimely stressful period of my life, the last three months in particular, […]
Read More Filling the ReservesWell, its been a while, but I’ve been dealing with this a lot this year as I move into being more public about my personal and professional opinions about my work. In short, sticking to my opinions when I value things and believe things, and not be offended when people disagree or challenge them because […]
Read More Having Opinions, Sticking to Them, and Then Letting Them ChangeI’ve been thinking for a while I’d start writing this blog again. Do I set up a deadline-driven schedule like I used to so it will actually happen? Probably not. I want to write again because lately I’ve been thinking a lot of things, and talking to people about a lot of things, that seem […]
Read More Blind Academic Lady Life 1This was going to be a part of my Emerging Scholar Series and then I thought of how I identified when thinking about this topic and I do identify as an artist the most. I am extremely overwhelmed with the possibilities right now to the point where I will go out on a limb and […]
Read More Creativity & Stress/RiskI’ve recently been told that I’m “such an academic,” but at the same time pursuing a PhD is old news and doesn’t make me different, both comments came from men, both comments came in the last twenty-four hours, and I truly have to believe that both comments were not maliciously made, but nevertheless I’ve taken […]
Read More MY Virtual MarchI’ve decided that hearts are human filters they suck in the tension and worry and grief, loneliness, pain, stress, and they eminate love like trees, that filter our air, like humidifers that also filter our air, although the heart doesn’t breathe for us it breathes in takes in the dust and offers nothing but warmth […]
Read More KindnessThis week was diagnosed with a sincere sense of confusion when it comes to the definition of what it means to be “original” and most prominently: authentic. What does it mean to feel authenticity? My good friend and peer Tony mentioned that authenticity is felt only in relation to something that is not authentic, to […]
Read More @BufferFestival 2016, #womenofyoutube , Visibility, and “Authenticity”Two bars of a song I’ve never heard before passes and the first thought I have is “I am craving a new world.” This strikes me as a bit strange, but music moves me to think things sometimes as all art does. Walking through art galleries, experiencing a powerful performance, or reading strong words by […]
Read More ArtIt has been over a year since I moved to Toronto. My first few months here had admittedly been a few of the worst ones in recent memory. Being away from any family or friends had made my life “living for the weekend’s that I would head to my rehearsal weekends in Cambridge or to […]
Read More My Love Letter to Toronto
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