You won’t find a live blog on this website (just archives of my previous blog posts from over the years and more links to a smattering of pieces I published on other platforms).

But I am still writing!

Now, and for the foreseeable future, I’m sharing my reflections on Substack.

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This is the main archive of my blog posts from previous incarnations of coriwong.com, where I wrote quite a lot. They need a place to live.

Here’s why.

When I first started blogging in 2010 on LittleBird, PoetTree, my voice was raw, shameless, and generally lacking in self-consciousness about putting personal feelings on[the]line.

That all shifted when I got the domain for coriwong.com and suddenly felt pressure to be more appropriately “professional.”

After graduate school, my personal and philosophical voice fractured into different online spaces under my own assumption that I needed separate platforms to serve different purposes. And my writing suffered and slowed from such a dramatic disintegration.

It’s been a messy path ever since. You can follow links to other places where I’ve written that prove it. At the very least, I want to gather these disjointed pieces together.

I spent over a decade trying to recreate a virtual home where my whole and authentic voice can be generous, prolific, integrated, and bold again. Because, as always, the personal is political is professional is philosophical. These things cannot be separated.

I like the feel of buymeacoffee.com, which is casual, friendly, and supportive. It feels like a hug and nudge of loving encouragement whenever people become monthly members or “buy coffees.”

Which is exactly what I needed when I felt like reluctant to share more personal things on my “professional” website. Never a fan of paywalls, I figured if people wanted to support me with “coffees,” they could and would.

I wrote on buymeacoffee and used it as a newsletter of sorts before finally opting for the more elegant and user-friendly Substack for my newsletter writing.

I’ve archived my BMAC posts here.

My Buy Me a Coffee page now primarily functions as a “tip jar” for collecting donations at my events. It’s also where you can download some of my pdfs!

My writing on Medium was rather sparse and sporadic, but I keep telling you I was lost and confused and didn’t have a writing home!

From 2014-2021, it holds are some bits and pieces of my thinking.

I built this site in 2018 after teaching my course, “Feminist Friendship.” My vision was to feature the sort of writings that exemplified the practice of feminist friendship (yet another meta philosophical project in the making).

I wanted it to be “immersive,” a digital space that hyperlinked in non-linear ways across topics so a reader could explore the related connections and find their own way toward understanding what it all meant. (Kinda like this website now!)

I spent so much time fleshing out the navigation tabs and sub-menus that I only ended up writing two posts (I had other blogs to maintain, along with very likely case of undiagnosed ADHD).

Nevertheless, the Feminist Friendship sitepresents many important “clues” about my concepts and answers to questions maybe you’re thinking now about my process and path. There’s even a short reading list.

This was my first ever blog, where I wrote from 2009-2012!

The 2010’s blogspot aesthetic is so authentic to my angst and heartache and the poetic reflections I shared as I navigated the woes of living and learning as a graduate student in philosophy.