Welcome to my creative world, a space where I share my creative writings and musings. Here, you’ll find reflections, stories, and insights shaped by my personal experiences and perspectives. This section is a canvas for exploring ideas, capturing moments, and connecting with readers through words.

Read, enjoy, like, comment, share—and let the muse flow!


  • Who Do We Even Think We Are in This Loaned World?

    Who Do We Even Think We Are in This Loaned World?

    In my PhD journey in the Rhetoric and Writing Program, New Materialism has emerged as one of my favorite theories. Of all the scholarly discussions…

  • Writing What I Should Have Been Able to Read

    Writing What I Should Have Been Able to Read

    To echo the wisdom of Alice Walker (1983), “In my own work I write not only what I want to read—understanding fully and indelibly that…

  • For Alexander

    For Alexander

    In memory of my dearest nephew, Alex Bobo And unto us, like a miracle, you were given. Lesser than an angel by just a half…

  • Through the Annals of Adetoun-Episode 6

    Through the Annals of Adetoun-Episode 6

    Beejay must have read Leviticus 18 for the umpteenth time, because while he was kissing me with all the passion his 5’8, dark-skinned, broadchested and…

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I’m Tèmítọ́pẹ́

As a central analytic for the work of the institutional ethnographer, standpoint foregrounds the ways individuals are unique and therefore uniquely experience the broad social relations and institutional circuits in which they are embedded.
Standpoint recognizes that how people negotiate their social circumstances as professionals is entirely wrapped up in their ways of being in the world—­who we are, what we know, how we are seen by others, our designated roles, and how we have been credentialed or come by our experiences all play a role in how we carry out our daily work.

— Michelle LaFrance, Institutional Ethnography, 2019.