Cynthia R. Wallace

I'm really looking forward to this series!

May every single human being on this planet be safe.

May every single person be protected from harm.

May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

Quiet Methodologies Reimagining humanities scholarship with humility and inclusive attention How might foregrounding the writings of colonized peoples transform the ways we work...

Maybe Suzanne Bost's new QUIET METHODOLOGIES: HUMILITY FOR THE HUMANITIES: a poetic meditation on method (including archive), self-revision, and graduate pedagogy, all with an interest in decolonial, feminist, and disability theory-praxis? www.upress.umn.edu/978151791821...

May song of a small-full life, a body, and a bird in flight

May song
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Thank you for sharing this. It pulls so much truth together.

Masks off: The lessons we didn't learn from COVID The pandemic accelerated economic disparity, revealing a disturbing acceptance of mass death. Did we learn nothing?

Long but important read. www.salon.com/2025/03/14/m...

I think about this a lot. Thank you for the reminder for us all.

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The administration just deleted information & resources from its website on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women & violence against Indigenous women.

To the families of missing or murdered women: you will never be erased.

Linking resources below, please share:

The grief beneath the rage and fear; the love beneath the grief and five things I'm doing to keep getting out of bed each day

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The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil - Reading Religion The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909–1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and th...

Many thanks to Samuel McKee and @readingreligion.bsky.social for this excellent review of my book THE LITERARY AFTERLIVES OF SIMONE WEIL. readingreligion.org/978023121419...

It was my pleasure! Thanks for sharing!

Gift Economies of Reading ...and their wisdom for living

So wonderful to read these reflections on my book from the incredible Dr. Cynthia Wallace! @cynthiarwallace.bsky.social Please read and follow her on substack!

And be sure to check out Sheryl Kaskowitz's (debut) Roving Philosophical Report with @cynthiarwallace.bsky.social from @usaskartsci.bsky.social and George Abbot White, editor of "Simone Weil: Interpretations of a Life" www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EI5...

From Sickbed Shores on finding each other in the in-between of illness

From Sickbed Shores
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It looks like there are a fair few of us on here now, so I've set up a starter pack for scholars working on Simone Weil. Anyone who wants to be added, just let me know 🙂 go.bsky.app/Hmjyma4

Reading: Climate Catastrophe / Climate Hope my growing to-read pile and books that have me thinking

I've joined the Substack crowd to share notes-in-process toward my next book project, which dances with the concept of "agonistic communion"--living together, finding each other, in protracted struggle. This week's post is about my current climate collapse/climate hope reading.

"To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us must find our work and do it." —Audre Lorde