‘You Must Change Your Life’: A personal reflection on love and kindness in pandemic times

I've decided to share a copy of the personal essay (linked below) just published in the medical humanities journal, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, which offers a reflection of my experience during New Zealand's first Covid lockdown in 2020. It seems particularly resonant for the current moment, particularly as we grow weary with the ongoing … Continue reading ‘You Must Change Your Life’: A personal reflection on love and kindness in pandemic times →

Women in craft beer: the numbers

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There's surprisingly little data about the number of female-identifying brewery owners or head brewers in the craft beer industry. Yet I constantly hear that 'things are changing!' Are they? How would we know? So last summer I set out to find out what the industry actually looks like so we might start actually charting this … Continue reading Women in craft beer: the numbers →

Hope Labor as, well, hope labor

While knee-deep in dissertation writing back in 2009, my colleague T.C. Corrigan and I were discussing the commonalities between our respective projects over drinks one night. TC had interviewed amateur bloggers about their routine writing practices and I had interviewed consumer reviewers on the website Yelp about how they utilized the review space as a … Continue reading Hope Labor as, well, hope labor →