Seasons Elsewhere, Vol. V

9 Sketches + 4 Seasons | ~33,000 words | 127 pages | 5.5" x 8.5" | Open Access (and/or $20 suggested contribution)

Seasons Elsewhere, Vol. V is a volume of writings written throughout the seasons. A hope is to describe and express ideas on various topics such as education, human rights, decolonization, resistance, and liberation through multiple modalities. To this hope, the writing experiments in their respective forms – essays, short stories, dialogues. There are also hand drawn sketches, newspaper clippings, and notebook images to add a visual interpretation next to the stories.

Some stories use "I" and others use "we." We play with these references to describe the relationality in resistance and writing. We recall a passage in Composition Elsewhere, Vol. III:

This is the reason there is a "We" used in most parts of this thesis composition instead of an "I" to recognize the community that moves even within an individual, who is composed of lived experiences within the community (2022, p. 83).

The season continue to change as we compose Elsewhere. Thus, it is an honor to share some of the writings across the seasons – Seasons Elsewhere, Vol. V.

Seasons (Outline)

FALL
Sketches: "Forms"
Sketches: "Bootstraps"
Education Projects
Dear Storyteller,
Forms of Violence
homemade
Sketches: "Crabs"
proof of concept

WINTER
Sketches: "JACKPOT"
Sketches: "Instructions"
Education Vignette #1: Executive Memorandum
Education Vignette #2: At An Insurance Expo
Education Vignette #3: New Season Trailer
Education Vignette #4: Fragmentary Passage of a Comet
Human Rights Vignette #1: Human Rights Insurance
Human Rights Vignette #2: Turning 26
Human Rights Vignette #3: A word from our sponsors
Human Rights Vignette #4: Let Me Get Two
Inventing Human: Human Rights as Property

SPRING
Sketches: "Textbook"
Sketches: "D-Papers"
Virtual Tea with Dean
Alchemy of Knowledge
Concentrated Encounters
Technologies of Resistance

SUMMER
Sketches: "Postcard"
Sketches: "Unopened Letter"
To Study
Defiled Genealogies of Clichés
End Quote
Mosaic
Refusing the Mirror
Types of Paper

References Fragments

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