https://www.joleycosta.com/works daily 1.0 2025-07-23 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/queue-musings monthly 0.5 2025-07-23 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tales-of-an-expat monthly 0.5 2024-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/85ae7882-7576-4491-b51d-d11f63c2373f/Screenshot+2024-12-06+at+3.15.15%E2%80%AFPM.png Works - Tales of an Expat - Make it stand out A view of Aarhus Cathedral, Denmark. Photo by me. https://www.joleycosta.com/works/using-chatgpt-to-learn-a-new-language monthly 0.5 2024-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/40c01301-0f48-4288-ac62-bae2c6857f0a/Screenshot+2024-06-24+at+7.48.08%E2%80%AFPM.png Works - ChatGPT can help you learn a new language - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.joleycosta.com/works/reimagined-agency-the-women-of-villeneuves-dune-part-two monthly 0.5 2024-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/0f0f82d1-ab79-4c94-91e6-bb95bd67becb/Dune-Zendaya-Chani-Jessica-Rebecca-Ferguson-91d11ef-e1709567802703-2484085965.jpg Works - Reimagined Agency: The Women of Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two - Make it stand out Chani and Jessica are at odds with one another in Villeneuve’s adaptation. (Dune: Part Two, Warner Bros.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/162fcffb-26d2-4a08-bbbb-c940c9162b71/the-evolution-of-Paul-Atreides-3297506266.jpg Works - Reimagined Agency: The Women of Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two - Make it stand out Paul Atreides is a duke-turned-Messiah, poised to wage a holy war across the galaxy. (Dune: Part Two, Warner Bros.) https://www.joleycosta.com/works/nightlife-as-a-lifeline monthly 0.5 2025-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/dd2be75f-cf37-4ecd-8bf4-1e17ea4c19d7/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdGF0aWMucmEuY28vaW1hZ2VzL2NsdWJzL2xnL2RqaV8wMDIxLmpwZz9kYXRlVXBkYXRlZD0xNjU4Nzg2MzAyMjU3-1145390751.jpg Works - Nightlife as a Lifeline - Make it stand out London’s top techno club, FOLD https://www.joleycosta.com/works/food-waste-in-london monthly 0.5 2024-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/a9c1cb60-42b0-4807-85c4-3b022d45d91d/Capture+d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran+2024-04-11+a%CC%80+8.56.33%E2%80%AFPM.png Works - Food Waste in London - Make it stand out Figure 1: London is the second-highest producer of total GHG emissions in Europe. In per capita emissions, it is the 11th (C40 Cities, 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/def17b28-b8ac-4c9b-8c42-3518175016dc/Capture+d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran+2024-04-11+a%CC%80+8.56.44%E2%80%AFPM.png Works - Food Waste in London - Make it stand out Figure 2: WRAP: Food and Drink material hierarchy. Prevention is highest priority, including redistribution, followed by recycling, recovery, and disposal (Food Waste in England, 2017) https://www.joleycosta.com/works/irish-language-rights-in-northern-ireland monthly 0.5 2024-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/6fff1698-ad13-4e35-90f6-897913763af7/Capture+d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran+2024-02-08+a%CC%80+1.22.29+PM.png Works - The Fight for Irish Language Rights in Northern Ireland - Make it stand out Proportion of respondents who said they had some ability in Irish in the 2021 Northern Ireland census. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/2bdd928d-f07d-48f1-82de-404daf21ce1d/Capture+d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran+2024-02-19+a%CC%80+9.44.29%E2%80%AFPM.png Works - The Fight for Irish Language Rights in Northern Ireland - Make it stand out Members of Sinn Féin protest in front of DUP MLA Nelson McCausland's office in Belfast. Their signs read, “Irish Act now.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/0ea9f6b8-ce5a-4c62-b50b-228eb464ef2d/Capture+d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran+2024-02-19+a%CC%80+9.39.14%E2%80%AFPM.png Works - The Fight for Irish Language Rights in Northern Ireland An example of bilingual signage. https://www.joleycosta.com/works/danish-isnt-as-hard-as-you-think monthly 0.5 2024-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/6385f7b3-092b-4fb1-8fc9-0f4b3bc4596d/Capture+d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran+2023-05-18+a%CC%80+5.48.10+PM.png Works - Danish Isn’t As Hard As You Think - Here are some other tenses. Simple, right? 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Image from Maggiano (2017). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/d5f4c6a9-5d56-47e9-b62f-b40212aec647/Capture+d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran+2023-05-03+a%CC%80+5.51.05+PM.png Works - Mobilizing Anger and Expertise: The Success of ACT UP - Make it stand out A graph showing the deaths from AIDS in the United States over time. Notice in 1995, there is a dramatic reduction in deaths: this was due to the introduction of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART). Image from Roser and Ritchie (2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/4e737998-0af1-4118-9d6a-c1ca9f81a609/Capture+d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran+2023-05-03+a%CC%80+5.50.50+PM.png Works - Mobilizing Anger and Expertise: The Success of ACT UP - Make it stand out ACT UP takes the instantly recognizable American flag and repurposes it to criticize the government’s response. Image taken from Reed (2005). https://www.joleycosta.com/works/my-little-glass-jar monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/ihwa-mural-village monthly 0.5 2023-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/d785f914-ecef-4d23-80f4-ea2e385cf76a/Capture+d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran+2023-05-03+a%CC%80+5.39.56+PM.png Works - Constructed Authenticity in Seoul’s Ihwa Mural Village - Make it stand out The two murals, side by side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/4d3b78e9-4873-44e9-8b89-5d0706a0c32e/Capture+d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran+2023-05-03+a%CC%80+5.39.35+PM.png Works - Constructed Authenticity in Seoul’s Ihwa Mural Village - Make it stand out Ihwa Mural Village https://www.joleycosta.com/works/les-funerailles-des-oiseaux monthly 0.5 2021-06-13 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/anxious-about-learning-a-new-language monthly 0.5 2024-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/1620752720803-GLAQAZKN0JUA6EJAGN4S/Sascha+Kasper%27s+learning+curve Works - Language-Learning Anxiety and How to Get Over It - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/1620753103700-P65ZQ2G014VN1ZWRSIXI/IMG_4097.jpg Works - Language-Learning Anxiety and How to Get Over It - Make it stand out Bordeaux, France (my own photo) https://www.joleycosta.com/works/out-of-reach monthly 0.5 2021-05-15 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/the-one-who-walked-away-from-san-francisco monthly 0.5 2021-05-11 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/resignation-in-ishiguros-never-let-me-go monthly 0.5 2021-05-02 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/remote monthly 0.5 2021-05-02 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/censorship-and-candor-reactions-to-hiroshima-and-nagasaki monthly 0.5 2024-07-13 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/blog-post-twelve-clgah monthly 0.5 2021-05-15 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/blog-post-fifteen-nxxzx monthly 0.5 2021-05-02 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/ice-ice-baby monthly 0.5 2021-05-02 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/category/high+school monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/category/Art monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/category/Creative monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/category/Education monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/category/Nonfiction monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/category/Poetry monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/category/Languages monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/category/Books monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/category/History monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/category/Humor monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/category/Fiction monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/category/Philosophy monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tag/danish monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tag/techno monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tag/feminism monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tag/ai monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tag/language monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tag/film monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tag/climate monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tag/food+waste monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tag/trans+rights monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tag/journalism monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tag/activism monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/works/tag/non-fiction monthly 0.5 https://www.joleycosta.com/about daily 0.75 2024-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/28ef6328-f651-4154-a246-a4f5320bab7c/Capture+d%E2%80%99e%CC%81cran+2024-03-06+a%CC%80+2.34.42%E2%80%AFPM.png About - Hey, I’m Joley. I’m a 22-year-old writer, researcher, and traveler, born and raised in San Francisco but currently based in Aarhus, Denmark. I recently graduated with a degree in History and Literature from Minerva, voted the #1 most innovative university in the world. Through this program and beyond, I’ve lived in the United States, France, South Korea, Germany, Ireland, Argentina, India, Taiwan, and the UK. You’ll see a lot of these places pop up in my fiction and non-fiction! I'm a strong believer in ‘writing as agency’, and I've worked with several organizations to help make the humanities more accessible to under-resourced students. Currently, I’m working full-time at a Danish non-profit that helps predominantly immigrant women receive housing, legal help, and holistic support as they escape domestic violence. In the past, I’ve worked at an EdTech startup and as a history research teacher, poetry instructor, writing contest judge, social media strategist, and barista. I'm also passionate about adult language-learning and creative writing—I’m in the final stages of writing a full-length historical novel. Stay tuned to see where my passions will take me next! https://www.joleycosta.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-04-28 https://www.joleycosta.com/novel daily 0.75 2024-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6057cfc1deb56a28d188b415/99366b35-6f46-405f-9af4-7ef33d64d8e6/book+cover+final_+2.jpg