DR. KATHERINE S. CHO

After moving, I've been experiencing a "real" fall - or at least the commercialized fall I've envied on television. With the last day digest for fall underway, here are some articles that have come across my radar. I had a bit more time to breathe so the range is as broad as ever, with no concrete theme running through. Hope you enjoy!

I am still coming to terms that October is here. In the midst of the transitions, I’ll admit that I haven’t read as much as I've wanted. For the time being, I'll be switching the last-day digest to a seasonal last-day and post every 3 months. While I've enjoyed these posts, the combination of time constraints and posting schedule has made most of my posts become digests, versus the content I had originally planned.

August has served to be a huge month of transitions on my end, with a cross country move, a new job, the finish of my dissertation, on top of the continued heaviness of Covid-19, the failure of institutions in Covid-19 prevention, and of course, the continued violence against Black folx in America. This month's digest is shorter and I contemplated whether to even share, but figured I'd share nonetheless . 

July's list is a little shorter as I've been preparing for a cross-country move. But, in a lot of ways, the theme is more or less the same that we've been reading: about institutional failure, the exhaustion of activism, and interrogations of what we know and experience. 

Hope you enjoy reading some of what I've read thus far. 

Similar to the May's "Last Day Digest," the links encompass a wide range of publication types, whether that is blogs, scholarly output, op-eds, and other media like podcasts and youtube videos. They are an amalgamation of things I have found to be thought-provoking and compelling, but by no means are endorsements of the authors, organizations, and ideas. Also they're in no particular order.

As a new type of post for this page, I'm putting together a monthly digest, if you will. I come across a lot of great articles, some self-discovered and many that are recommended by friends, colleagues, and mentors. In trying to figure out how to share what I've been reading, absorbing, learning, reflecting, I've decided to share the collective links on the last day of every month, kind of like a roundup of sorts.