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.
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 Future of Healing: Building a Pluriversal Approach to Trauma
A pluriversal approach to trauma honors the diversity of healing paths, embracing relationality, cultural wisdom, and systemic transformation.
From Dualism to Relationality: Redefining the Self in Healing Work
Relationality invites us to move beyond dualism, redefining the self as part of a vast web of relationships where healing is a collective and systemic process.
Woundscapes: Mapping Trauma as a Geography of Pain and Possibility
Woundscapes frame trauma as a geography of relational ruptures and openings, revealing pathways for collective healing and transformation.
The Violence of Perfection: How Colonial Ontologies Shape “Normal”
The pursuit of perfection, rooted in colonial ontologies, disconnects us from relationality, but embracing imperfection can open the door to collective healing and connection.
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.
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.