Author: astridaneimanis

A ‘back to school’ message from FEELed Lab Director, Astrida Brat Girl Summer had its day, and Hot Girl Summer does not appeal. (Although a sardine girl summer does sound intriguing.) Forget about the trends; the real question is: was it a Vortex Girl Summer (regardless of your gender) for you, too? I mean… did… Continue reading Did you have a Vortex Girl Summer, too?

All things come to an end – good, bad or indifferent! For example, summer … and Instagram accounts! While the FEELed Lab usually takes a break for the summer, we ended this season off with another Craft-a-strophe! session [ from craft: making, doing + strophe: part of a poem – in other words, where crafting,… Continue reading ::: crafty endings :::

This FEELed Note is part of our occasional series featuring outstanding feelz from undergraduate students. When we think of a dictionary, we tend to envision a collection of words with given definitions that have been widely agreed upon. We think of “universal” understandings or categorizations of a particular something, allowing us to communicate quickly and… Continue reading The Music We Forget is Music

“Goblin Market” (Christina Rosetti), “Mono-n-butyl phthalate (urine) 30.9 ng/mL” (Adam Dickinson), and “Holders” (Rita Wong) This FEELed Note is part of our occasional series featuring outstanding feelz from undergraduate students. Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” is an 1862 poem long renowned for its early inklings of feminist thought and queer love between women as solution to… Continue reading A Family Unit of Ecofeminist Poetry

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on Jamie Stevens, who has been working with us as a community partner on the Better World Club and is now joining the lab as an MA… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Jamie Stevens

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on Clara Kleininger-Wanik, who is joining the FEELed Lab as a visiting artist and researcher in August 2025. Currently I am working on my PhD research, which… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Clara Kleininger-Wanik

From 2-8 June 2025, the FEELed Lab convened FEELers Summer Camp on unceded syilx territories at Naramata, on the shores of kɬúsx̌nítkʷ (Lake Okanagan). We–approximately 45 researchers, artists, writers, poets, community activists and organizers, climate justice advocates and students–learned from the land and each other, subtended by the simple and incredibly complex question: how do… Continue reading Sifting through the After-Feels…

This blog post was written by FEELed Lab Administrator Julia Jung. Recently I found myself tracing ammonite fossils on a rocky beach in Lyme Regis, UK. Bathed in a surprisingly strong April sun, I kept moving from ammonite to ammonite, trying to find the ones who have left remnants prominent enoug to show up on… Continue reading Tracing Learnings across Communities

As we welcome new people to the FEELed Lab, we want to make space for longer introductions to project team members and research affiliates joining us this year. This profile is on Meghan Reyda-Molnar, who is joining the FEELed Lab as a research assistant and affiliate for our FEELers Summer camp and is currently doing her MFA at… Continue reading Researcher Profile – Meghan Reyda-Molnar

This blog post was written by FEELed Lab Research Affiliate Susan Reid, who is currently undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship at UBCO. It is pretty incredible to think that one year of my postdoctoral fellowship with UBC’s Faculty of Critical and Creative Studies has unfurled. This post offers some research reflections and notes about the felt-field… Continue reading Postdoctoral Field Notes