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Everybody knows I research farm animals.
What most people don’t know is that I spend the vast majority of my life surrounded by people I almost always politically disagree with, and often ethically struggle with.
I think this has heavily influenced my approach to critique.
What most people don’t know is that I spend the vast majority of my life surrounded by people I almost always politically disagree with, and often ethically struggle with.
I think this has heavily influenced my approach to critique.
I’m trying to help my students learn that critique from a place of love, and done lovingly, can be extraordinarily powerful.
But it also tends to be bound to immediate experience, lived relations, and situated interactions.
This brings the stakes home.
But it also tends to be bound to immediate experience, lived relations, and situated interactions.
This brings the stakes home.
It also makes critique harder, in my experience.
Generalised critiques are easy.
Critiquing people & practices you love has to be done slowly & carefully.
I’m not always good at that part and, because there is love, there is also hurt.
More responsibility & accountability.
Generalised critiques are easy.
Critiquing people & practices you love has to be done slowly & carefully.
I’m not always good at that part and, because there is love, there is also hurt.
More responsibility & accountability.
I love sheep farming & one of my research participants. As a human, a person, a shepherd, a woman, a friend. It sucks when we disagree. But over the years we’ve changed each other, and through that, the lives of thousands of sheep. That shit is real and powerful. Real powerful!
Actually, make that tens of thousands of sheep! Those flocks are big 
