Dear world,
This summer I will spend resting and nourishing my relationships to a handful of kin. Most of my life will revolve around finishing my book manuscript and completing existing commitments with collaborators. I will tend to other gardens starting in September. I want to honor a slow pace of work and life. I wish you all some deep rest and joy.
Students: I do not know yet what fall enrollment for my courses will look like given space and capacity constraints. Come to class the first day where we will go over the syllabus, see how much space and capacity we all have. I wish I could admit everyone but I also want to build a sustainable classroom environment for mutual flourishing. I will add a link to the preclass survey and syllabus here, most likely alap (as late as possible) in September sometime.
Kin: You know who you are and how to find me or when to find me in that other non-linear time world where there are no deadlines and work happens in-between joy and pleasure and naps.
“Making kin seems to me the thing that we most need to be doing in a world that rips us apart from each other, in a world that has already more than seven and a half billion human beings with very unequal and unjust patterns of suffering and well-being. By kin I mean those who have an enduring mutual, obligatory, non-optional, you-can’t-just-cast-that-away-when-it-gets-inconvenient, enduring relatedness that carries consequences. I have a cousin, the cousin has me; I have a dog, a dog has me.”
– Donna Haraway, “Making Kin” Interview, 2019
Cindy A. Nguyen 