https://magnus919.com/tags/macarthur-fellows/Recent content in Macarthur Fellows on Notes from the Rabbit HoleHugoen© [Magnus Hedemark](https://github.com/magnus919)Sun, 31 May 2026 02:00:00 -0400https://magnus919.com/2026/05/staying-loose-the-creative-impulse-as-resistance/Sun, 31 May 2026 02:00:00 -0400https://magnus919.com/2026/05/staying-loose-the-creative-impulse-as-resistance/<p>In the late 1980s, a former trial lawyer named Denise Shekerjian read a newspaper article about the MacArthur Fellowship. The &ldquo;genius grant,&rdquo; people called it. It came with a mysterious phone call, a generous six-figure award paid with no strings attached, and the kind of cultural recognition that changes a life.</p> <p>Shekerjian was not interested in the money or the prestige. She was interested in the people. She wanted to know what made them what they were.</p>