From English 101 the poem we read about grief stuck with me because it’s a concept that no humans can illustrate alone in words, but an enemy more common than any thief. And its impact as it warps our perceptive of reality remains undetectable, unpreventable and undeniable. Because it deals with memories of our loved ones. Memories in our lives we cannot erase.

Which ties me into the start of our ethnography maps in Intro to Ethnography. Turning a racist scientific career path into maps that reflect the memories of our own lives and the memories we have yet to make. That make us value the place, to deem it important enough to mark and to share with the people around us.

Leslie Tapper