Writing
Blog Samples/Published Articles & Poetry
Blog: Seeds from The Buddhist "Nonself" to The Indigenous Wisdom that inspired Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
August 1st 2022
"And 'I came to theory because I was hurting - the pain within me was so intense that I could not go on living. I came to theory desperate, wanting to comprehend - to grasp what was happening around and within me. Most importantly, I wanted to make the hurt go away. I saw in theory then a location for healing'Â (bell hooks 1991). Perhaps not healing, as now I know how messy of a life-long journey it is to heal both interpersonally and generationally, but I feel in theory a place to understand. To understand why and how we were hurt, so we cause less hurt to both ourselves and others. To study our collective pain is harm reduction, to understand this wound is a the world (Billy-Ray Belcourt) is to study how this world is our wound..."
Blog: A Safer Space to A Softer Place
January 10th 2022
"A safer space for all is my dream, but a softer place is the plan to get there. As I have come to learn that holding space is a skill of ego-death, and that safety is a delusional luxury. The lack of safety has stolen our humanities and sanities, it becomes a violent cycle of reforming colonial spaces and socio-political systems instead of revolutionizing/decolonizing interpersonal places and connections. A softer place is an anti-capitalist call for us to put our work into relations instead, a call to lead with transformative-compassion, thus a call to seed for a blossom of return..."
Blog: Full Moon Finale
November 19th 2021
"So I grieve and give thanks, under this full blood moon in Taurus just after the lunar eclipse, I write this final blossom for this blog after 8 years. It has been the most humbling, messy, and honouring journey of storytelling. I look back and witness myself outgrowing myself: word after word and moons after moons; I remember the times I searched for myself through softer words and in hopes softening this world. Now like a dehydrated flower reblossoming in the waters of Scorpio sun, and under the full blood moon in Taurus, I grieve and I give thanks to the trees and land protectors, the wind and water walkers, the fire keepers, and the hearts in solidarity across all seas. And as we blossom again, we take soft care and rest, so we sustain, together beyond timelines of violence and uncertainties...
We will blossom, again…"
Poem: Trans Day ofÂ
Remembrance/Resistance/Resilience
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre:
November 20th 2020
"in a world
where queer existence remains a threat and
when coloured pride still stands a protest
where silences fill before laughter and
when stares on streetcars never stop:
20 turned 21 – an immigrant trans femme
surviving into 2021 with
a year full of grief in solitude…"
Blog: Abolishing The Police Within
July 7th 2020
"... abolishing the police means to confront its violent legacies internal to our humanities. abolishing the state means to decolonize lands/bodies, to pray in reparations and meditate in reconciliactions. abolishing systematic violence means to relearn community care and unlearn individualism, to relearn collective joy, to unlearn for justice... abolishing the colonial-patriarchy means to embrace compassion and vulnerability, and return to the roots of feeling for our collective breath."
Article: The Art of Staying Soft -
A Trans Woman/Femme in Academia
The Underground for UTSC:
May 31st 2020
"I began asking myself: Am I in school to know, or to grow? What is it that I wanted to know, and is knowing really enough/worth it? Is it enough to just understand, and with what comfort/complicity are we to study stories of violence/survival/deaths as if they were just cases, of people we demand spectacles from but never justice for? Yet as times have proven personally/politically, such understandings and egotistic elevations would still not save a trans woman/femme from social discrimination, ie. physical/sexual violence..."