The image attached features a stack of books and a small red dumb-bell. I am not a visual artist, so it was difficult for me to think of how to represent a purely academic paper. Ultimately, I photographed the books I used–either directly in my paper, as background research, or as inspiration–next to a weight. As I wrote (and as I carried the stack of books around), I couldn’t help but feel the deep, bone-tired heaviness of the thoughts and ideas I was carrying around with me. I feel like there is a responsibility and accountability that I have to face up to in my work and my research. Such weighted-down emotions deserve a better representation, perhaps, but it is important to me to show, as best as I can, the importance of such heaviness.