Essays

Content warning: This article discusses suicide, genocide, eugenics, and other forms of violence.In Canada, it is easier to access physician-assisted suicide than it is to secure accessible housing. What sense [...]

“Cities are about life, not just about walls. The objects that we hold sacred cannot be destroyed in principle because walls and roofs constitute only one percent of their essence, [...]

When the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, along with his administration and more than 80,000 Tibetans, fled to Nepal and India following China’s military retaliations against the Tibetan uprisings of 1959, they [...]

I said to her, “I’m grateful to be here, but my life here is not like my life at home. I spent my time there working the nightshift with my [...]

“If people say we are lagging behind, then we are only lagging behind in destroying the earth.” — Akhu Sonam Tashi Our Golden Fatherland, Your Fragile Wasteland Read the opening [...]

Para Alicia I live in a little hell. What is left for me? Tell me, what can be left for me in hell? Margarita, Field notes, May 2018 “There is [...]

AES is pleased to present fieldwork essays from the winners of our Small Grants Competition.Towards the end of his life, Jacob Moreno, the founder of psychodrama, published a recollection of [...]

“You’ve got mail,” my husband said to me, handing me a small envelope. “It’s from the monastery,” he continued. “This can’t be good,” I thought out loud. In 2017-2018, I [...]

When a young person is sick, their parents are typically asked to consent to treatment on their behalf. But what is it that parents are actually consenting to when they [...]

Winter: time to get cozy, to curl up in front of a fire with a good book. From the land of academics dreaming, we bring you the second installment of [...]