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

satisfying: someone coming into my office with an external hard drive where the usb port sheared off; i pried open the enclosure and retrieved the intact drive and sent the student to the computer store to source a new enclosure.

it's finals crunch season, everyone!

do i...have the nerve to use comic sans, though

look pals i'm in the grad section of a predominantly undergraduate class and i'm not even a real grad student, i don't have much at stake here, i'm going to have some fun.

(also the work is actually legit, dogs are real and we have a real co-history with them and they know things we don't we should listen to them and also they're good.

putting together slides for a little presentation i'm giving to the class this
week and i sure did just title a slide 'practical ethdography' and included two
pictures of me at age 7 gently grasping the skull of a great dane, which is
easily larger than my torso.

i fan't believe it took me like three months to think of

"anthropawlogy"

there's a chill acoustic croony version of dirty vegas's "days go by" and it's really charming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONCY0xnefAE

the only good use of infinite scroll:

endless.horse

most notably for me, it points out a frequent issue in cosmopolitan activism that assumes an end goal which includes a global/universal adoption of cosmopolitan values, which is something that has quietly bothered me for a long time and hasn't quite started crystalizing until now.

i've often had a hard time thinking about how to align rural/conservative community views with more (i guess) "cosmopolitan" ones and this article was really helpful for me!

Rice, Jennifer L., and Brian J. Burke. 2018. "Building More Inclusive Solidarities for Socio-Environmental Change: Lessons in Resistance from Southern Appalachia: Lessons in Resistance from Southern Appalachia." https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12336.

#environmentalism #activism

new prof in my department asks me if professors asked for pronouns as part of first day of class introductions when i was a student here, and i said, 'no, because it was like, 2005'.

i feel like i'm witnessing something secret when i'm the only person listening to hackers.town:2600

@TheGibson n u m b e r s s t a t i o n

@TheGibson my favorite part about leaving hackers.town:2600 playing is how often tracks from NIN's Ghosts album come up, because i love that album and those tracks shuffling into my ears makes my day :3