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.
An Ode to the AidMama(toto): How a Photo Became a Song, a Song a Ceremony, A Ceremony a Movement
This post began with a photo—an act of raw vulnerability, a moment of transformation. What followed was a ripple of connection: a poem became a song, a song became a ceremony, and now, that ceremony is becoming a movement—a collective reckoning with burnout, grief, resilience, and the unseen labour of those who mother, in every sense of the word.
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.
Fighting Back: A Relational Approach to Trauma, Resistance, and Preventing Burnout
If oppressive systems function by severing relationships—disconnecting us from our bodies, each other, and the land—then healing is resistance. The task is not just to fight back, but to sustain the fight without becoming what we are resisting.
The End of the World (As We Know It): On Trauma, Collapse, and the Possibility of Otherwise
What if healing wasn’t about resilience or repair, but about releasing the world as we know it and imagining something beyond its limits? Denise Ferreira da Silva challenges us to see the end—not as catastrophe, but as an invitation to unmake and remake the very structures that have sustained violence.
Why Is Trauma Such an Overused Word These Days?
The overuse of the word trauma risks diluting its meaning, but reclaiming a relational understanding can help us address its systemic and collective dimensions.
Beyond the Individual: Why Trauma Is a Collective and Systemic Issue
Trauma isn’t just an individual experience; it’s a rupture in relationality, calling for collective healing and systemic change.