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wishcrys

Freckleface!

Had to slice this gold nugget out of a recent paper to make the word count, but am so happy it exists because somebody can relate to my freckleface :) […]

Galleries

Pitt Rivers Visuals: On pain.

I totally nerded out and died at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. “The objects in the museum are arranged by purpose or use, so that you can compare how people in […]

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Anthropology is everyday, every day is anthropology

“If I were a good Bugis officiant I could probably […]

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Academica Dramatica x #totesnotacreepyfangirl

Oh you know, just casually standing in a one-meter radius away from GODDESS JUDY WAJCMAN and produced some audible sounds from my mouth (please don’t issue me a restraining order). […]

Brainfarts

Kafka on silence.

Looking at the castle, K. felt at times as if he was watching a person who was sitting there quietly, staring straight ahead, not so much lost in thought and […]

Brainfarts

Brainfarts on empathy.

“The issue the Diary presents, with a force perhaps only a working ethnographer can fully appreciate, is not moral; it is epistemological. If we are going to cling – as […]

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a letter to the universe.

dear universe, some days i feel like i can conquer the world. others, i can barely pry myself out of bed. today is one of those curious in-between days. i […]

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Academica Dramatica x The real lessons I learnt at OIISDP.

There are some things in life that you just cannot […]

Brainfarts

There is always music inside my head.

“A child in the dark, gripped with fear, comforts himself by singing under his breath. He walks and halts to his song. Lost, he takes shelter, or orients himself with […]

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This semester, I pledge to

1) have lunch away from my work desk as much as possible because I need air and some form of social interaction with nature and/or people 2) set some time […]

Brainfarts

I need feminism every day because

I don’t want my coping mechanism to be apathy. “Most of the images we see are of women who: constrain their bodies… to present themselves in feminine postures and gestures […]

Talks

cataloguing reactions from #cciws13. Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) Winter School 2013. Bananjamin ‏@10rdBen 27 Jun 2013 Lucky last talk today is @wishcrys talking about #lifeisgood: […]

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Academica Dramatica x Motivation +1

Anette was very sweet to invite me to her dissertation defense celebrations as Sara’s plus one in June. The Swedes at JIBS sure do know how to party in style. I […]

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Academica Dramatica x Placelessness.

Email Reminder: Your flight is departing in 7 days’ time. Every time I am tasked to do a big piece of (presumptuous) brainy writing, I end up on 1 of […]

Heritage

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Into the woods.

A mini-mini #aas12 reunion with bekbek in Stockholm earlier this month. Always thankful for the gems in academia who keep me grounded, are my voice of reason, share their life […]

Brainfarts

Saudade.

i am fond of collecting things. i have premature nostalgia. i have perpetual nostalgia. i have permanent nostalgia. they don’t get it. you know those earworms that give you spatial […]

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Academica Dramatica x Life Advice.

Wise words from a senior academic: “You should never feel ‘small’! After all, you know far more about your research topic than anyone else. So don’t let some academic looking […]

Teaching

I love my students so much.

Thank you to the two anonymous students from Wednesday who made my day! You are so witty. And sneaky.

Talks

all the unimportant things from week one of oiisdp, Crystal-brain Tweet-style

aka livingontheinternet.com aka do you think I could Tweet my […]

Influencers

Photo Essay in The Q.

One of my mini photo essays has been published in The Q: The Quarterly Newsletter of the Australian Anthropological Society. Special thanks to Klarra for allowing me to embed with them […]

Influencers

#sexbait at MMTC

Had the honour of sharing some of my work at the Media Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC) at Jonkoping International Business School (JIBS) a fortnight ago thanks to the amazing Sara Ekberg. The campus […]

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OII SDP 2014 Reading List

Reading list for the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme 2014 (OIISDP 14). Original here. Internet Geographies: Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour – Mark Graham Graham, M., Hogan, […]

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