A modified version of a seminar paper, this post explores ancient Zoroastrian burial practices as a challenge to anachronistic historical analysis.

I’ve been writing about demons, jinn, dybbuks, and witches! It’s been interesting to think beyond simple history in order to explore some of the socio-cultural underpinnings of these phenomena.

The following is an excerpt from a published paper on photography, violence and power, and how authorizing discourses are created. Photography is not simply seeing; it is actively evaluating the world. Photographs are not only taken, witnessed and forgotten, they shape the view of ourselves in relation to the other. What is retained by the […]

A typical criticism levelled at politically charged music is that it accomplishes little by preaching to the already converted. Yet if a subversive idea were to escape and enter the mind like some proverbial babble fish, well, it can challenge our beliefs, or worse, affirm what we’ve ignored. It was thanks to a Propagandhi song that I […]

I was looking through old posts of mine and came across an entry from 2009. My grandmother had just died, and since it took me so long to process that event, I wrote about it with questions I thought mattered. Would I cry, would I start feeling sad, etc? Turns out that I wouldn’t feel […]