Editing Conference calls from the road (section)

=Writing and Reading in Flux=

[[File:Diary snippet becoming.png|thumb|pages from diary about "becoming"]]

Practices of reading and writing, like any other practice, are co-constitutively shaped by the material conditions and possibilities around them. They do not happen in a vacuum.

The material circumstances of my PhD have slowly unveiled themselves as being in a constant state of flux in-between different geographical locations. Not all seasons are suitable for living in a campervan in Ontario. Funding and project cycles do not adapt to personal circumstances, and neither do Northern communities when it comes to their seasonal window of opportunity to act on their own responsibilities, desires and routines. Responding to these fluctuating conditions and possibilities, I was launched into a process of constantly moving-in-between places. For three years my physical whereabouts were intra-dependent with the unfolding of the global Covid-19 pandemic, the seasons, the schedule of the BearWatch research project, family-affairs, friendships and romances. I was constantly travelling in-between Ontario, Nunavut and the Netherlands, as well as timezones, geographies, and climates.