April 12, 2025I presented at 4C25 on AI refusal, focusing on the ways that AI reduces intentionality and creativity in the craft…
March 6, 2024Rutgers SC&I invited me to give a talk about what the process of composing my dissertation was like, to show…
January 26, 2024I didn't use scripted remarks for this roundtable talk, but below are some of the questions that were asked, and…- May 3, 2022Ten years after starting my Ph.D. program, six years after I started thinking, reading, and writing, I've finished my dissertation.…
March 25, 2020I am writing this now because I am approaching the limits of my capacity for writing. I'm 36. I've lived…
February 4, 2019It's the anniversary of Sri Lanka's independence from British rule, thus also the kairotic moment prompting me to finally collect…
August 23, 2017One week into tapering off Savella, which would not have been possible save for my paranoid hoarding of medicines I'm…
May 4, 2017I want you to know you're killing me. You always were. It isn’t news. But assume your postures of defense…
April 27, 2017It's the last week of classes, and my course announcements, as usual, have stacked up like this: Hey class, Due…
November 11, 2016Today, I stand inside my apartment, in front of a closed door, as I have done each morning since Donald Trump…