WRITINGS
Resources, Stories & Poetry
Explore a wealth of articles on relational trauma, systemic burnout, and decolonizing well-being. Whether you're seeking practical guidance or transformative perspectives, you'll find resources to help you nurture connection, resilience, and collective healing.
AI-Ethical ‘Stance’ Statement
As a scholar and researcher, I am committed to ethics and transparency in my work. All academic-related writings are rigorously cited and will not appear on this site, while fully original pieces are shared on my Substack. On this blog, I use AI tools to support clarity, structure, and flow, helping translate my detailed, dense writing style into accessible posts for wider audiences. All ideas originate from my own research and writing, with AI serving as a supportive tool. As an Autistic researcher, this helps me to make complex topics more engaging. I also use midjourney to produce artwork for the site, along with use of open-source images.
I explore AI, post-humanism, and cyborg futures in my academic work, reflecting critically on its potential and ethical implications. This is my ‘stance’ today, the ground on which my feet are held. This could change tomorrow. Life is dynamic, and so is technological ‘innovation.’ If you wish, you are welcome to write me to share perspectives, or to ask for references and guidance.
AidMama(toto): A Love Poem
This is a poem for the AidMama(toto)—the ones who balance caregiving and service, who hold their children while holding the world together. It is for those raising communities while navigating impossible choices, displacement, surveillance, and exhaustion.
It honors those whose burdens become resilience, whose unseen labor sustains futures, and whose love has no bounds.
Whether you are an AidMama in name or in spirit—this is for you.
You are seen. You are heard. You are not alone.
Decolonizing Trauma: Reclaiming Ancestral and Relational Knowledge
Decolonizing trauma invites us to reclaim ancestral and relational knowledge, moving beyond individual recovery to collective healing and systemic transformation.
Báyò Akómoláfé: A Brilliant Bard Breaking Boundaries and Bouncing off Backslashes
Bayo Akomolafe invites us to step away from doors that confine us within the known and into the cracks, where new realities and transformative possibilities emerge.
What is Aid Worker Burnout?
Aid worker burnout arises from the relentless pressures of humanitarian and development work, compounded by systemic barriers, chronic stress, and emotional toll, requiring a shift from individual resilience to systemic accountability and collective care
What is compassion fatigue?
Compassion fatigue is a form of emotional and physical exhaustion that arises from prolonged exposure to the suffering of others.
What is moral distress?
Moral distress arises when systemic barriers conflict with ethical values, reflecting a need for relational care and collective action to transform systems of harm.
How are compassion fatigue, moral distress and burnout related to each other? How do they impact people working in helping professions?
Compassion fatigue, moral distress, and burnout intersect in helping professions, compounding emotional and systemic challenges, and highlighting the urgent need for relational and systemic approaches to care and sustainability.