2022 saw my first publication in a peer-reviewed journal. I’ll admit that one of the reasons I submitted photographs to Refract Journal was their title—hey, you like things that refract, I can set you up, right? But seriously, the journal is published by the visual studies programs at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the legendary base camp of daring thinkers like Donna Haraway, whose writing I’ve been spending a lot of time with in the past few years. So it meant a lot to me that the editors wanted not only to use the photographs but to give me editorial guidance in completing a legitimate article to accompany them. It’s not every day that people want to hear that much about why I do this work, and I aim to write more about it in the coming months. You can download the issue of Refract Journal or read online.