Conversation between me and dance artist Justine A. Chambers on the materiality of #Play where we dance with ideas of #riskyplay #looseparts #publicspace and #bylaws that shape our bodies youtu.be/ZtNqE_rm7gc

Looking forward to tonight's The Ediths roundtable - Sweet, sweet sweaty #play. Please join at 9pm Eastern on Zoom ecu.zoom.us/j/89153790622?…

Looking forward to speaking at #WASLA 2021 Conference about #playgrounds on October 8 in Spokane, Washington

On Nov 30, Anne Marie Coughlin, Joanie Vallinga & I will share sketches, sounds, stories, and questions that inspired and continue to drive the work of unravelling our relationships with ECE #playgrounds. This AECEO presentation is open to public. Register via aeceo.ca/play_grounding…

Continuing a conversation started at The Ediths roundtable & reading @ecobruja ‘s Matters of Care, I am thinking about pedagogy of maintenance as care. Maintenance is a program to keep something in a specified condition (and often in case of landscapes, to improve it)...(cont)

...To paraphrase Woolf, maintenance is a man: physical, knowing, certain, infected with knowledge of how to maximize return on investment. Within the realm of a pedagogical project, we have an opportunity to consider something different: maintenance as a form of care.

Thankyou @AffricaTaylor @moemccullen for collaboration! We explore principles of Common Worlding as collective pedagogical approach and explain how they work out in practice, including the #WitnessingtheRuinsofProgress #ECE research collaboratory in ON. journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jcs/…

On the act of sweeping: I juxtapose a piece of #pedagogicaldocumentation and performance by Lee Mingwei to consider how an everyday act of #sweeping can slow us down and how we might consider this labour of maintenance as a ritual of care. play.climateactionchildhood.net/index.php/2022…

Spent the day on the #playground talking about a July intensive week with children and educators to consider and enact pedagogy of #maintenance as care. May have also got sunburnt. Talk about painful embodied experiences.

If this was about babies, there would be universal healthcare. Free education. Free daycare. Southern states would be doing all they can to drop the Black maternal mortality rate. This is about power and control

Taking the paper on my spatial relationship with five backyard hens to Newcastle for #RGSIBG22 And it started with Cory Jobb suggesting I think of geography of hidden animals

Amending this to: "I would definitely have finished editing by now if I had actually started writing". I'm scrolling through writers' social media filled with writers block ponderings to get inspired as I'm about to (any minute) start writing all of my papers

Something tell me I'm going to need that ice cream for comfort as I begin reading The Promise of Multispecies Justice, Editors @Sophie_MH_Chao Karin Boldender & Eben Kirksey

As I get older, I get much better at being conscious of my sensing body. #ethnographicgoals 🙏 Excerpt from Ez Donk Oraindik's editorial as @_entanglements_ take on smelling as a feminist practice:

ah, to procrastinate by making gifs from old #sketches

Our new project Playing for Keeps: #Sustainability Potential of #Playgrounds received funding from Western University pilot program advancing UN Sustainable Development Goals. It will being together educators, artists, undegrads, ecological professionals & pedagogists in play spaces!

This week: writing retreat with @moemccullen and feline supervision keeping us on track #easilybribedthough

Opening the #ThinkingIntersections series are @Nxumalo71 & Preeti Nayak ■ JAN 25, 2023: Preeti Nayak & Dr. Fikile Nxumalo OISEUofT on co-theorizing #ClimateJustice #pedagogies: Intersections and generative departures ■ Register yorku.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Remnants of last night's work with Capilano University students as we took on blind contour #sketching, shading and erasing, beginning with wanting to capture an object but moving into a co-composing of an event

my husband, upon opening the box The #feministkilljoy by @SaraNAhmed came in: "Oh look, someone wrote a book about you!" Best compliment EVER (aaaaand here go all of my weekend plans)