Monthly Archives: November 2024

The Whiteness of Audubon’s Snowy Egret

Nicolas Mirzoeff’s essay, The Whiteness of Birds, brought my attention to this painting. There are layers here that probably tell us more about people than the about the ecology of the bird – about white history, white nature, white autonomy, … Continue reading

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Book Review: Rebecca Nagle’s ‘By the Fire We Carry’ burns bright

Like Rebecca Nagle, I remember that Monday morning in July, 2020, glued to my laptop, waiting for news from SCOTUSblog. My first indication of the McGirt decision was a tweet from Nagle exclaiming that Gorsuch authored the decision. That was … Continue reading

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