Delighted to learn I’ve had a poem published on Poem Alone. Many thanks to Colin Dardis for selecting it. You can read the poem here.| John Kenny
myths fed back as stereotypes and strawmen to divine some boundary for acceptability| CONTINGENT
The archive my colleagues and I have built and maintained since 2012 is inaccessible. The post The Losses: The History of Genomics Program appeared first on CONTINGENT.| CONTINGENT
. Voice and sound theorist Zeynep Bulut’s Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin (Goldsmiths Press, 2025) is a remarkable work that reconfigures the ways we define “voice.” The text is organized in…| Sounding Out!
Catching up on some 2024 releases I missed, and cracking open a record that was closed to me all year.| Chasing Sundays
It’s back to school time and I thought it would be great to kick off the year with some fun facts about human bones. Let’s jump right in! Human adult skeletons are made up of about 206 bones…| The Rockstar Anthropologist
This is part three (final) of the 2019 Black History Month series on two important sites- the African Burial Grounds in NYC and a tiny island called St. Helena. Sorry, it was delayed, but Black His…| The Rockstar Anthropologist
This is part two of the 2019 Black History Month series on two important sites- the African Burial Grounds in NYC and a tiny island called St. Helena. In this second part, I’ll discuss the bu…| The Rockstar Anthropologist
The Royal Navy began to police the water for ships filled with enslaved people en route to the Caribbean and the Americas. Some of these ships were made to turn back, but they all didn’t go back to…| The Rockstar Anthropologist