By Kimine Mayuzumi Do you have difficulty in writing lately? What gets in the way? Procrastination, distraction, lack of motivation or imposter feelings? A productive and sustainable writing experience often requires a good state of mind and physical wellness. In our past blog post, Why today (more than ever) you need writing rituals?: 5 reasons, Riyad Shahjahan suggests that we as writers need “a mind that is decluttered so that we can give our…
By Lisette E. Torres As a newly disabled Puerto Rican scholar-activist, I have been grappling with how to continue my scholarship in the academy. I have begun a process of returning to meditation and slowness after stopping due to graduate school. In this multimedia blog post, I narrate my poem that focuses on my use of Taiji as an embodied meditative practice and form of resistance through self-care. As I read my poem aloud, my…
By Kimine Mayuzumi Email is a great human innovation. It’s quick, easy, and cheap. We used to send our hard-copy manuscripts to journals by snail mail, which was costly, slow, and tedious compared to our current system. Yet, we still suffer from our online activities including emails (Holmes, 2014; Seal, 2017). The below table shows the comparison between the benefits of using technology we intend to receive and the actual consequences that we often face…
By Riyad A. Shahjahan “To be able to face our fears, we must remember how to perform ritual. To remember how to perform ritual, we must slow down” (Malidoma Somé) Given the everyday distractions of social media, feelings of inadequacy/unworthiness, and/or world wide events, how can I as a scholar/writer write? How can I write in the midst of privilege and oppression? How can I focus on my “work” for today? In my numerous conversations…
