#ugandaspeaks against #kony2012
Congratulations to @jssozi, @RosebellK, @maureenagena, and @echwalu on taking steps to provide Ugandan perspectives on the LRA. Wishing the team had more northern Ugandan voices, particularly given the...
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186 miles in 24 hours
I don’t talk about running very much on this blog, but I’m leaving town in a few hours to get ready for something awesome, and I wanted to share. Starting tomorrow morning, 11 other people and I will...
View Article186 miles in 24 hours: complete
Still reeling a bit, but overall, the experience was sort of like this: IT WILL BE FUN. (Spoiler: it TOTALLY WAS.)
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K’la, get ready.
It’s official: the Air Uganda line on my bank statement says I’m coming back. I’ll be in Kampala July 4 and 5, and in those two days I’m hoping to make up for the three and half years I’ve spent away...
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Dear Facebook: Uganda ≠ Joseph Kony
A friend and I just spent four days in Uganda, and I got an email today letting me know that she had put her photos from the trip up on Facebook. She geotagged the album as taking place in Uganda, and...
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A Song for Kansas Day
Wandering children of Kansas away, By mountain, by desert, or sea, Feasting or fasting, at prayer or at play, Whatever your fortunes may be, Open the doors of your hearts to the breeze, Prairie wind...
View ArticleCall Me Kuchu: March 12, 2013 in Salem, MA
I just got back from a screening of Call Me Kuchu, a film about Uganda’s LGTB activist community, at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA. I’ve been eager to see this film since I first blogged about...
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William Fichtner is a damaged NYPD detective solicited by International Criminal Court “inspector” Donald Sutherland to work with French, Irish, German, and Italian cops to…play with fancy 3D...
View ArticleAnonymous asks people to call Congress; US responds by shutting down wifi at...
Earlier this evening I saw that the Associated Press and others are reporting that the US military has shut down wifi service, along with access to Facebook and Twitter, at Guantanamo. According to...
View ArticleOn numbers
One of my favorite lectures at SIPA was Paul Thurman’s last lecture for Quantitative Analysis for International & Public Affairs. Stats is required for every SIPA student, not just those...
View ArticleGoals
I’ve been thinking a lot over the past few months about goal-setting, self-incubation, being myself and being bad at things, and finding direction and clarity. Today, I stumbled across Maggie Mason’s...
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I made a thing
In the spirit of making things this year, I bought a sewing machine. My ultimate goal is to make beautiful quilts like this and this and this, for wrapping myself in while reading books and for giving...
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Wandering children of Kansas away, By mountain, by desert, or sea, Feasting or fasting, at prayer or at play, Whatever your fortunes may be, Open the doors of your hearts to the breeze, Prairie wind...
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