Tag: literature

When We Say “Postcolonial”

What do we mean when we talk about “postcolonialism” or “postcolonial cultures”? It’s a fair question, and one we get asked fairly frequently. It’s also a key aspect to what we’re trying to accomplish with this project, and one that requires a little bit of explanation. Postcolonialism refers to a branch of several disciplines (literature and ethics among them) which focuses on …

The Video

The day we did our fundraising photoshoot, we also asked our closest friends and family to be filmed answering three questions for an interview-style video we hoped would showcase our humanity and support system. We wanted our loved ones to be candidly honest in their explanations of what we’re doing, who we are, and their hopes and concerns for the project. …

More Than a Library

We are starting a library in Ghana. That’s what we thought when we launched this crazy crowd-funding campaign and began researching how best to prove our sanity to our families. Establishing anything in another country is audacious—far from the transient backpacking forays I’m used to—but apparently it wasn’t big enough. Kaitlyn and I sat down with an old family friend of …

So It Begins

Every once in a rare while, when searching for one’s purpose for the next era, we can actually get a very clear glimpse of what we are supposed to do. Sometimes it makes perfect sense, ie. “Yes, I have been voicing my opinion on the internet for years now; it makes sense that I would go into politics this year” …

The Library

One of the difficult things about having a blog is that it offers a fractured and fragmented view of the life or lives it is meant to reflect. Like a stop-motion animation, it creates a sense of movement and growth from singular moments and preserved experiences, distilled into the timelessness of words on a screen. Because of this, what I’m …

Why We Blog

The phrase “I’m starting a blog!” has so many preloaded connotations that even the closest friends must restrain themselves from snickering and saying, “Yeah, okay.” Everyone has a blog—some people have multiple blogs that individually get neglected and fall through the cracks to rot in the untold dregs of the internet. We could build an entire political party on the …