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In search and denial of metaphor

by Roxani

Pandemic field notes on grief, bird migration, ritual, and time

May 4, 2021
comments 6
Featured, Greece features, Grief and Loss

Field Notes: Narratives of violence and vulnerability, research, and humanitarian work in conflict zones

August 20, 2018

Endings

What does it mean to pronounce an era over? What does it mean to declare a conflict to have...

by Roxani
comments 0
April 25, 2018

Paper cuts

These are not the stories of exceptional, graphic sexual violence, which I have witnessed, heard, and experienced myself in...

by Roxani
comments 3
April 17, 2018

Echoes

It is the end of another day of research  in Colombia and I am visiting one of the many...

by Roxani
comments 0
April 14, 2017

Spectacles of death

Reflections on motherhood and weapons systems, public death in Syria, and the spectacle of dying in a Greek hospital

by Roxani
comments 0

Roxani at TEDx

If stories have power, how do we tell them without diminishing the agency and integrity of those to whom the stories belong?

Grief, Memory, Loss, and Everything After

Spectacles of deathReflections on motherhood and weapons systems, public death in Syria, and the spectacle of...April 14, 2017

Grief elvesI have carried grief in my bones for so many years that I do...March 17, 2017

AccompanimentI know that Easter and fathers and pre-exam jitters and saudade layer atop each...May 2, 2016

In Search of Home(s)

Home Features, In Search of Home(s), Uncategorized

Pick a piece of sky

What does it mean to develop ways of knowing the natural world? And how do those ways of seeing sometimes require unlearning power?

December 28, 2019
comments 19
Featured, Home Features, In Search of Home(s)

Becoming

The first fluency I lose when I do not soak in a language every day is intimacy. I become stiffly polite, reverting to the formal 'you': σας in Greek, usted in...

August 10, 2017
comments 11
Greece features, Home Features, In Search of Home(s)

Estranged tongues

Naming ghosts of patriarchy and misogyny was a feminist project to which I have committed my life with little hesitation or regard for propriety (ever the fear raised to...

July 24, 2016
comments 10

Nostalgia, immigration, transitions: A dive into the writing archives

February 2, 2020

More than a feeling

On the morning after the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, many of my friends in the UK...

by Roxani
comments 0
November 10, 2016

The work of politics

What does it look like to do political work in the every day? Voting is not the only political...

by Roxani
comments 14
October 6, 2016

Taking feminist questions seriously

What would we ask about the rejection of the Colombian peace agreement if we took feminist questions seriously?

by Roxani
comments 4
June 29, 2015

In search of human dignity in Greece

I remember when people would gather to watch the war. This usually consisted of sitting on a hilltop and...

by Roxani
comments 10

Photo nostalgia: Greece

Girl plays in puddle reflecting The Acropolis
The Parthenon, through a glass of wine











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