hey i'm winston. i read a lot for fun and to help me better understand and interrogate our world. this web-blog is where i chronicle some of my learning. i work as a product manager for Honeycomb.
Recent posts
Practice Refusing
When you practice refusal, you start conjuring up space for different futures. It's a magic trick.
To Scott Hutchison
I saw a post this week from Hanif Abdurraqib commemorating your birthday, and when I woke up this morning these words were screaming to get out. So I'm going to write you a letter, because I miss you so much and I had no actual relationship with you except as a fan. But god, you mattered so much to me. Matter so much to me.
the god of flowers
I've been writing some poetry lately, and while most of I'm writing for me, I felt like sharing this one.
Live Music
A smol post about how much I love live music, even if I don't get to enjoy it much these days.
Recently Read
Gideon the Ninth
Copyright 2020, Tor Books
Fiction
(3rd time reading)
Ancillary Mercy
Copyright 2015, Orbit
Fiction
(3rd time reading)
Ancillary Sword
Copyright 2016, Orbit
Fiction
Ancillary Justice
Copyright 2014, Orbit
Fiction
(3rd time reading)
Neurotribes
Copyright 2015, Avery Publishing Group
Cultural Analysis
The Truth About Stories
Copyright 2003, University of Minnesota Press
Indigenous Issues, Cultural Analysis
A Half-Built Garden
Copyright 2023, Tor Books
Fiction
The Rediscovery of America
Copyright 2023, Yale University Press
Indigenous Issues, Cultural Analysis
Links of Note
Articles, papers, and other things that don't make it on to my reading page.
The World is Toxic. Welcome to the Metabolic Era
The Stones Shall Cry out: Consciousness, Rocks, and Indians
On Nonscalability: The Living World is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
Feminists write the Anthropocene: three tales of possibility in Late Capitalism
Decolonization is not a Metaphor
Disability, Bias, and AI