Less is more?
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After cascading record-breaking disasters in British Columbia in 2021, there has been a general sense of exhaustion in many circles here in Vancouver and the BC interior. As we have made our way through these crises, however, the humbler, quieter strength and trust we have developed in each other and ourselves, the stripping away of otherness that comes from having weathered the unimaginable together, brings a different sense of connection and recognition. It is my honour and privilege to be working with extraordinary people now to address recovery needs after the Lytton wildfire in the Fraser Canyon. Nobody knows what 2022 will bring - but we are organizing and working to prepare, learning what we can from the past, discussing and imagining what might work for the future.
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Terrific intellectual and political peers here at the Science and Technology Studies department at UBC, and a productive first year in our new surroundings. Even as I am building my sense of community and home as a visitor on Musqueam land (thank you), I am also aghast at the situation of many former colleagues and friends of friends in Afghanistan. Receiving funds is complicated, finding health care is complicated, and gaining entry to safe countries is complicated. Extremely vulnerable people are internally displaced due to lack of food and extreme poverty. For so many of us, this year's COVID crisis and natural disasters were bad enough - Afghans cope with those but now also find working while female and even taking a photograph are becoming dangerous.
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Terrific intellectual and political peers here at the Science and Technology Studies department at UBC, and a productive first year in our new surroundings. Even as I am building my sense of community and home as a visitor on Musqueam land (thank you), I am also aghast at the situation of many former colleagues and friends of friends in Afghanistan. Receiving funds is complicated, finding health care is complicated, and gaining entry to safe countries is complicated. Extremely vulnerable people are internally displaced due to lack of food and extreme poverty. For so many of us, this year's COVID crisis and natural disasters were bad enough - Afghans cope with those but now also find working while female and even taking a photograph are becoming dangerous.
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