Essays

The Phantoms of the Maze

Erotic, queer and orgasmic

The dot on my forehead: how we understand the crisis is part of the crisis

Father to Son

Homo Icarus: The Depreciating Value of Whiteness and the Place of Healing

The poetics of the preposterous

Finding the Dark: Decolonizing Darkness

The trouble with equality: feminism and the forgotten places of power

Alethea’s Lesson: Queer Homecomings and the Quest for Community

What climate collapse asks of us

This revolution will not be schooled

Coming Down to Earth

To be a proper self is to be beside oneself

Living in a crease

What would a Mountain do? Activism in an Age of Entanglement

The invention of the individual

The Turning of the Whales

The Burden of the New Story

Those Bonfires of Taboo

Our shock will not absolve us

The costs of American exceptionalism

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible – Reviewed

Romancing the stone: A visit to Luray Caverns

Killing Harambe, or how monsters are made

The Times are Urgent: Let’s Slow Down

We have met the monster, and it is us.

The Politics of Pokémon Go

Turning to the Wilds

Grieving is how flowers bloom: an invitation

Entangled with the World

The Allegory of the Pit: Or the Irony of Victory

Nigeria: The Poison is the Pot

Inclinations

How I Lost My Way

They sang with a thousand tongues: The poetry of diversity

Speaking in tongues (Or why the correct answer is no longer enough to solve our problems)

I am Madiba

Dear white people

We Will Tell Our Stories

The sacred is awkwardly closer than you think

I am writing a book. I will not be the same.

I, Coronavirus. Mother. Monster. Activist.

Shootings in America: A Letter to New Questions

Do our bodies matter?

I want my skin to breathe

Meeting the Inappropriate/d

Name the Colour, Blind the Eye: Reimagining Education

“My”

Towards a World Citizens’ Movement – Learning from the Grassroots

Release the Kraken! Why we need monsters in these times of crises

On Trump: An Open Letter to the Brokenhearted

Pagan insurgencies and Com-post Humusities

The edges in the middle

Shit matters: Answering the call of compost in these times of exclusions

Leadership as gift

When I told my students to dance naked on a Vancouver street

An Oríkì for Our Time: Reflections on Activism, Change and Wonder

Bernie’s insurrection and the question of Hillary’s qualifications

The Natural Life Cycle of Faith

How my prejudice redeemed me from believing I was essentially good

Today, I declare my war with you to be over

The Cinema House Effect

Coming into the Sanctuary

In the Thinnest of Places: Initiation as Empowerment for Civil Action

The politics of the pursuit of happiness

Putin, Ukraine, and 1945: The War Never Ended

Believe All Women! Dispatches from the Frontiers

The public is not a simple location: A confession

Nigeria: How to Rig an Election

A Hundred Other Names for Autism

Barbenheimer: A Tale of One City

The Lines that Whisper Us

Why I Sang in the Dungeons: A Prophecy to End the Year 2023

The Postman and the Mouse

Here, there be dragons: The Man and his Apple Vision Pro

The Children of the Minotaur: Democracy & Belonging at the End of the World

Paraphilanthropy: Giving Money its Freedom Papers

Oughtism