hvincent @hvincent@scholar.social

hi!

i have a computer science and creative writing background, and i've worked in lab/studio management at a photo program for a while. i've also been doing history and anthropology coursework in an unofficial postbac/predoc kinda way, and considering real grad school in the next few years.

my interests are identity construction/boundary making, knowledge systems, land/environment usage; i enjoy being a generalist, though, so i'm stoked to hear about what y'all do!

#introduction

hey y'all, how do you feel about using pseudonyms vs identifiable names, for both people and places, when writing about social research?

there's the obvious factor of protecting people's privacy, but what if there's a person who *wants* their real name to be published? what about having accountability by letting others verify the work? what about the somewhat paternalistic trap of gatekeeping who gets to access the "real" place?

i've been really tired but not too tired to try to enact decent self-care but almost too tired to stop myself from feeling bad about not being good enough at self-care.

gotta keep plodding through.

second rejection in. making a point to reply to rejection notes and thanking them for their time.

sure did stand in line at airport security well before dawn and listen to an old white lady lean in for the conspiratorial put-my-hand-on-your-arm-and-stage-whisper to my (muscular white dude) partner about how she was spectating freshman move-in at the university that both of us attended and currently work for and that there sure were "a loooooot of orientals" now, while also stating how unbelievably long the line was

felt a little nervous taking the lead on discussion group this morning, but i certainly had lots of opinions and a couple good questions to get things rolling. honestly, i love that kind of stuff, where you put some heads together and just talk about a paper? i was just worried about whether or not i got enough out of the reading to get things started.

anyway, nice thing to wrap up my week before spring break :)

while working on ethdography i made notes about 'transspecies pidgin' and 'perspectival multinaturalism' and if i take three steps back and look at the sort of human i've become, i feel rather ridiculous, wow, no wonder academics have a reputation for being stuffy eggheads

come on just say 'people and dogs talk to each other' and 'all sorts of beings have thoughts'

it gives me so much joy when i use my power of being in charge of stuff to tell students it's totally fine if they put down an alias or preferred name when they're signing up for something instead of a student id that refers to or outright exposes a legal name that i greatly suspect they'd rather not have to use every time they interact with paperwork.

(coming from someone with a force-assigned email id leftover from when i was a student that uses my entire legal first name)

FREE SINKS

let my sink go

yesss gonna lead the grad student breakout discussion session this week, let's talk about dogs, i picked eduardo kohn's 'how dogs dream', i'm going to make everyone be as obsessed with ethdography as i am now.

first rejected submission of the season! actually kind of relieved about this one because i didn't really want to follow through on it, it was just a soft thing to submit to and i had stuff prepped anyway.

the game is on!!! several more things i'm waiting on @_@

experiencing a moment of peace by sitting in the middle of a very large city library and reconciling the fact that i'll never read every book

@nsaphra oh not to mention my boss gets confused but slightly charmed by my weird friends with weird names like nwf and munin who occasionally show up in my life and we talk excitedly about moderately sketchy-sounding things that he doesn't want to know too much about n_n

@nsaphra i am frequently found literally halfway inside a wall or a ceiling panel or under a sink or inside a cabinet trying to fix something at work, and my office/workbench is so scary that no one else wants to set foot in there in case they accidentally bump into something that might explode, and no one understands my notes except me (only sometimes me)

@nsaphra i know you said i'm your headcannon pepper but i s2g i have never identified with a character as much as kizzy chao, especially as i was taking apart my tool chest looking for a soldering iron and knocked over a box of assorted googly eyes, spraying them all over the floor, giving up immediately on cleaning them up, and then started disassembling random electronics for parts that were unrelated to the thing i needed to solder