Slow Digest: A World of Gifts, Not Commodities

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by Katie Waddell, C21 Managing Director, and researched by C21 Graduate Fellow Carson Pittman. The valleyedge by edgebare field by fieldI walked through it through you rain by raincold by coldroot absenceand the purposeful …

Slow Digest: Urbanism

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Russell Star-Lack. To at least some degree, living in an urban environment necessitates embracing speed. City dwellers have things to do and places to go. When it takes a long …

Slow Digest: Pausing, Healing, Asking for Help

In the latest episode of 6.5 Minutes With…C21, C21 Graduate Fellow, Jamee Pritchard, interviews Charmaine Lang, Ph.D, a certified healing centered coach and organizational development consultant, about her work on slow care. Lang defines slow care as intentional pausing and community …

Slow Digest: Television

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles I came across slow TV during the fall semester of 2023 while in the midst of studying for my preliminary exams. While the …

Slow Digest: Care, Rest, Resistance

In the latest episode of 6.5 Minutes With…C21, Desiree McCray, a womanist scholar, explores the intersections of race, gender, class, and Black religion and culture. She advocates for “slow knowing” and “slow care” in education, public theology, and activism, emphasizing …

Slow Digest: Africanfuturism

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Slow Futurism in Africanfuturist Science Fiction As a spatial genre, science fiction challenges readers to perceive the world differently. It reconstructs space and place in relation to …

Slow Digest: Violence

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Yuchen Zhao. This edition of Slow Digest delves into the concept of slow violence, a term coined by Rob Nixon to describe the gradual, and often invisible forms of environmental …

Slow Digest: Embodiment II (Rest)

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Jamee N. Pritchard. Eat, Pray, Love, and Liberation: The Search for Rest Tricia Hersey, the founder of The Nap Ministry and author of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto, argues that rest …

Slow Digest: Time, Place, Worldview

6.5 Minutes With…Mark Freeland In the latest episode of 6.5 Minutes With…C21, Mark Freeland, Director of the Electa Quinney Institute and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, discusses the cyclical nature of time in indigenous worldviews, …

Slow Digest: Embodiment I

This week’s edition of Slow Digest was written by C21 Graduate Fellow Carson Pittman. The concept of “slow embodiment” offers a unique perspective on our daily experiences, inviting us to examine how we inhabit our bodies and interact with the world around …