The Geecologist

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

Aug 2, 2026 | Essays, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

One of the most moving photographs I know is also one of the dullest: an empty, uninteresting-looking room with a brown carpet and beige walls. It comes at the end of Joel Sternfeld’s book On This Site (1996). On each of the previous recto pages is a color photo of an...
Do You Condemn?

Do You Condemn?

Jul 18, 2026 | Essays, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Negotiating Power Relations through (In)DirectQuestions and Answers Design in Ethno-political Interviews Political Condemnations and Moral Scripts Condemnations are an integral rhetorical resource of epideictic rhetoric, the rhetoric of praise and blame, which...
There Are Rivers In The Sky

There Are Rivers In The Sky

Nov 15, 2025 | Fiction | 0 comments

‘Grandma?’ ‘Umm?’ ‘When I go deaf, will I forget your voice?’ ‘How is that possible? The ear never forgets what the heart has heard.’ ‘I don’t know what that means.’ ‘It means my voice will always be by your side – even after I’m gone. Because I’m impressed here … and...
James

James

May 24, 2025 | Fiction | 0 comments

Never had a situation felt so absurd, surreal and ridiculous. And I had spent my life as a slave. There we were, twelve of us, marching down the main street that separated the free side of town from the slave side, ten white men in blackface, one black man passing for...
James

James

Apr 26, 2025 | Fiction | 0 comments

I walked outside and over to the big fire, where the men were sitting. I was greeted and then I sat. We talked some about what happened to a runaway over at another farm. “Yeah, they beat him real good,” Doris said. Doris was a man, but that didn’t seem to matter to...