explaining
Failure to Adapt? Climate Mobility and History in Haiti
Haiti’s struggle is is the continuation of a centuries-long fight for true sovereignty, not just an environmental crisis.
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newsletter
02.06 | why does "using our voices" feel so tiring?
It often feels like we’ve been shouting so much our throats are getting hoarse. We balk at the thought of another post, another meeting, or another protest. Yet, staying quiet consumes us with guilt. We spiral into depression.
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explaining: so this is what it's like to be laid off
Hi, I'm Elaine. This is elaine is XYZ, a vlog that's about me suddenly and surprisingly and sadly... losing my job
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explaining: where all my vlogging mojo went in 2022
2022 was hard. And if I'm to get into making vlogs, even just for myself, in the future, I needed to unpack that and figure out a way forward.
explaining
Let's talk about multicultural mistakes & orientalism & appropriation for a minute
A reminder that culture clashes are complicated and never just about just the two at-odds that you see on the surface.
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I'm leaving China... for SupChina!
I’m thrilled to announce that as of today, I’ve joined the amazing team at SupChina as their Chief Marketing Officer. And as part of that role, I’m moving back to the United States.
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Elaine's little primer to COP26
So, unless you're under a very specific climate change-denying rock, you probably knew that there was some major world leaders' meeting going on right now that had something to do with the environment. I try to break it down.
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The real reason everyone is dealing with an obesity epidemic
If you want to see this post in video form, you can check out the latest video I posted on my Youtube channel: So I got monetized on Youtube off of an experiment in fasting... now over half my followers are from a vlog I did about a 14-day fast.
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The dog whistling in this New Yorker article on pandemic pets was really something.
So yes, eating dogs. A topic I don’t particularly really enjoy bringing up, but that I tend to get exposed to a lot anyway.
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Elaine is... moving to Ghost from Squarespace
After spending the last three years trying to make my Squarespace website work for me, I've decided to move at least the blogging bits over to this new platform: ghost.org!