Slow Digest: Family, Ephemera, & The Archive

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Ceceilia Loeschmann. Photographs, videos, documents, and other ephemera often exist as objects of memory, valuable to the families and individuals that create, collect, store, and steward them.  Anna Woodham explores …

Slow Digest: Adam Carr

Jamee Pritchard talks with Milwaukee storyteller and community historian Adam Carr about what it means to practice slow care in a world that moves too fast. Reflecting on what he calls our “wounded landscape of care,” Carr shares his walking practice, his weekly ritual of eating soup by the lake, and the quiet rebellion of being purposefully inefficient.

Slow Digest: Community Care & Slow Action in Practice

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Every Saturday at the intersection of South 76th and Layton Avenue in Greenfield, Wisconsin, from 10 a.m. to noon, a group of 30 or more protesters line …

Slow Digest: Memory, Imagination, and the Speculative Archive

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Monique, a 16-year-old Black girl, sits in her classroom, headphones on and book in hand. She tries to block out the noise of the classmates around her …

Slow Digest: Community

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Yuchen Zhao. Slow care, as C21 frames it in previous Slow Digest posts, asks us to place deliberate attention on the beings, things, and sites that sustain shared life over …

Slow Digest: Attention Activism

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. As an elder Millennial, I had the privilege of straddling both an analog and digital world. I remember using card catalogs and pay phones and recording mixed …

Slow Digest: In the Wake of Slow Care

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is a reflection and introduction to this year’s theme of Slow Care. At 3:56pm on September 27, 2024, my mother took her last breath. In the …

Slow Digest: Humanities III

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is the third essay in a three-part series discussing the essential nature of the humanities. Don’t miss Parts 1 and 2 of this series: “Reshaping the …

Slow Digest: The Humanities II

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is the second essay in a three-part series discussing the essential nature of the humanities. Don’t miss Part 1 of this series, “Reshaping the Humanities Through …

Slow Digest: The Humanities I

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. It is the first essay in a three-part series discussing the essential nature of the humanities. Part 1: Reshaping the Humanities Through Executive Orders In his first …