the sight + sound of chaos
The thing I love most about systems and process thinking, and what makes it relevant to my work, is its power in application through...
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julia byrem
- Mar 24, 2019
- 3 min
the grammar of animacy
Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass From the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition of “communicate” that most...
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julia byrem
- Nov 14, 2018
- 3 min
liberating mother mary
Korean women theologians are concluding that the idea that no human male is included in the conception of Jesus means that the world...
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julia byrem
- Nov 11, 2018
- 2 min
undo. reclaim. imagine.
I am undoing white supremacy by staying open to learning what that term means, how I have accepted and internalized it until it has...
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julia byrem
- Oct 14, 2018
- 2 min
aging is not a disease
A status quo story that I challenge in my teaching is that aging is a disease, specifically regarding women. While all folx in modern...
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julia byrem
- Oct 3, 2018
- 2 min
knowing + speech
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff (126)....
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julia byrem
- Sep 2, 2018
- 2 min
san francisco california
there is a woman lying on the sidewalk. she is half-conscious and half-naked, filthy, grey skin from the waist down. on her face is so...
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julia byrem
- Aug 21, 2018
- 2 min
why teach?
I am a teacher: it's my passion, and I'm good at it. I love it because I love learning, and nothing teaches like teaching. I love taking...
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julia byrem
- Aug 16, 2018
- 3 min
the wisdom of no escape
I need to say this—right now I’m scared. R. Kikuo Johnson’s artwork on the cover of the latest New Yorker got me good this morning. I...
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julia byrem
- Aug 15, 2018
- 1 min
shape-shifting : or : feminist spirituality
One is not born, but rather becomes, woman. – Simone de Beauvoir [1] Together, we must move like waves. – adrienne marie brown [2] By...
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julia byrem
- Aug 14, 2018
- 4 min
anti-dependency. interdependency.
I am witness to process. I choose my words carefully here—every ‘thing’ is a process, and the field is home. These words have multivalent...
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julia byrem
- Aug 18, 2017
- 3 min
witch is wolf
August 18, 2017 He is the first thing to come to mind upon rising. And has been in every journal entry for the past three weeks. Yet no...
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