My Writing Manifesto
I write to...
blend ethnographic methods with fictional elements, archival history, critical theory, and experimental writing styles such as poetry, performative writing, narrative, and visual art.
speak from my heart, as Ron Pelias suggests, in a manner that is "emotionally vulnerable, linguistically evocative, and sensuously poetic."
bend back on myself as a lens to understand the world so that I can ask myself the same questions that guide my analysis and interpretation of others.
recognize writing as a method of inquiry as well as an embodied practice that is relational, pedagogical, and performative.
explore the interconnectedness among people, communities, nature, and things - abstract or philosophical, concrete or specific - to consider the "spiritual" intersections that bring us together so that I might positively impact the world.