Abra's Blog

Welcome to Abra’s Blog!

This page is committed to a personal-public sociology. Seemingly an oxymoron, but like the concept of the sociological imagination, I insist that the personal is intimately tied to the general, that is the larger public, structural sphere of social interaction–a field that is merely constructed from millions upon millions of daily, hourly social contact by all of us, at the same time, in any given moment.

There are a multitude of ways we express ourselves as products of the public, of this moment. Undoubtedly, the most expansive, critical, and innovative is artistic expression (movement, music, painting, singing, writing, cooking, sculpting, weaving, etc.). I am not only convinced of the power of the arts to open and change minds (for both ill and good), I am also convinced that the collective (and concentric) fields of the arts are the pathways, the doorways, the keys to understanding both individual identities and the societies that shape and are shaped by them. In this spirit,  I am a lover of and an advocate for the arts; these are my impetus for and articulation of my passion and commitment to social justice and egalitarianism on U.S. soil.

Herein, this blog space makes room for the support, utility, and analysis/critical reading of the arts, as part-and-parcel of a personal-public sociology: exploring my/our social world through the lenses of (creating and critiquing) popular and fine arts, in particular, as they represent the coded, symbolic realms and agency of (doing and analyzing) personal and collective identities.

Join me, and stay tuned!

Peace and everything good to you,

Abo