Slow Digest: Murals of Community Care

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by Anna Mansson McGinty, Faculty in Geography and Women’s & Gender Studies and C21 Lead Faculty Advisor. In November, I had the opportunity to participate in a very meaningful and engaging conversation with Milwaukee-based …

Slow Digest: Prompting a More Human Future

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Last month, I attended a Slow AI workshop sponsored by C21’s Human Club that centered on the practice of prompting — the everyday act of giving language-based …

Slow Digest: Higher Education in Wisconsin Prisons

This week’s edition of Slow Digest is written by C21 Graduate Fellow Chloe Kwiatkowski. Higher education programs within the Wisconsin prison system have long been characterized by limited access, exclusionary practices, and slow advancement. For decades, deliberate policy choices have eroded educational …

Slow Digest: Kitonga Alexander

Once a month throughout the 2025-26 academic year, Slow Digest will feature an episode of C21’s 6.5 Minutes With…C21 podcast series, produced by C21 Graduate Fellows Jamee N. Pritchard and Yuchen Zhao. In this episode of 6.5 Minutes with C21, …

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 …