July 2022 Monthly Review

thorns

• trying to work while also at conferences or training
• feeling like I don’t fit in academically at conferences of either discipline (communications or theater), but feeling very welcomed socially

roses

• performing at Fallout and in Maestro at Hideout
• using my Alamo movie pass to see movies
• reconnecting as friends with Danielle after friction
• travel to Detroit and Vancouver
• kink parties at Elysium and Shrine
• Negativland concert!
• Cedar Point
• first theater and communications academic conferences, first sober conferences

buds

• starting three big projects (dissertation, arts + sciences collaborations study, embodied environmental justice counter-narratives)
• Marc joining me in Vancouver after missing them for a month

media from the last month

• film
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Nope
• Thor Love & Thunder
• Touki Bouki

tv

• What We Do in the Shadows
• Gentleman Jack
• The Expanse

theater

• Running Bear
• The Emma Dilemma

books

• The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
• Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
• How to be Idle
• Dawn
• Light from Uncommon Stars
• Pleasure Activism (re-read)
• She Who Became the Sun
• Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change
• Clay’s Ark
• Patternmaster
• The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
• Happiness
• Mind of My Mind
• The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed As You Are
• Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation
• The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
• A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

music

• Negativland concert
• Amber Mark
• Beyonce
• Swsh
• Stromae
• Jensen McRae
• Tunde Olaniran
• Sadurn

board games/rpgs

• The Between

MOOCS/youtube

• Radical Permission Course
• We are the Culture Makers Course
• Minx + Muse Multiverse