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This wasn’t entirely inevitable
Since last week’s local and devolved elections, I’ve heard a lot of the I-word floating around. How inevitable everything was. How voters were dissatisfied with the pace of change so it was inevitable that Labour would lose. I think Morgan had cards left to play—maybe Labour couldn’t have kept power, but she could’ve kept her…
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What I’m thinking about on the day of the 2026 Senedd elections
Today, Scotland and Wales both have devolved parliamentary elections. So, here in Cymru, we’re deciding who will represent us in the Senedd in Cardiff, our capital. Unless the polls have been incredibly mistaken, Labour’s century-long hold on Cymru is over. The question is: what’s next? Will UK’s answer to MAGA, Reform, come away as the…
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New writing
Apologies for the lack of new writing over the past month. I’m hoping to have some new writing to share here soon. In the meanwhile, I have been working on a few other things.
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Love the silent, hate the silence (a letter to my high school Bible teacher)
It’s been twenty years since I left your classroom—the two years I spent working for A’s, memorizing Bible verses, perfecting an impenetrable worldview. Friday mornings, some of us would show up before class, coffee in hand, for conversations about faith and politics. I’ve thought of you. Have you thought of me? I think you must’ve…
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Degree #4, part 1
I’m done with my MA at Purdue! All that’s left to do is fill out a few forms, pay a thesis deposit fee … and say all the things I really wanted to when I was asked to fill out a grad survey. And I’ve got a lot to say. This is the first part,…
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My name
In its anglicised, Upper Midwestern form, Meredith is a bit flat. Two syllables. Easy. In Welsh, it’s three, with the emphasis on the penultimate syllable: mah-red-deth. At some point, I might change it to Welsh orthography, but for now, an extra syllable will do.
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What the Middle Ages Can Tell Us About Racial Reconfiguration and Political Realignment Today
We are living in an era of renewed “flexible definitions,” when everything old is new again — “a moment in which cultural race and racisms, and religious race, jostle alongside race-understood-as-somatic/biological determinations — uncannily renews key medieval instrumentalizations in the ordering of human relations.” The Welsh weren’t the first cornered into renouncing their identity to…
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Saying Goodbye to America, and Finding Our Town in Cymru
As a bi-national couple, our story has never been a simple one—but it’s always been good.
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Thoughts from the 2:37 bus for Amalfi
A young woman’s coat has claimed the last free seat on the bus. Incredulous, you would later comment that it was rude of her not to move it. But, hanging on with both hands as the bus trundled along the too-tight turns, I only thought about how proud I was of you.
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New article on Nation.Cymru
Separated by five years and a day, the events of January 6, 2021 and January 7, 2026 will remain stamped in the memories of Americans for a generation. The first, when we realised that a peaceful transition of power is no longer a given following the attempted insurrection at the US capitol. The second, when…