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Below is a selection of writing samples that exemplify my commitment to honoring the multifacted intersection of nature and culture through interdisciplinary scholarship.
"Destabilizing Anthropological Theory: Against Ableism in the Study of 'Humankind'"
"Destabilizing Anthropological Theory: Against Ableism in the Study of 'Humankind'"
This paper argues that the integration of posthumanism, disability studies, and animism is needed in order to critically examine traditional anthropological theory, which has centered man (i.e., "anthro") as the focus of knowledge production and renders the more-than-human world as a mere background for exploitation. It integrates important perspectives from critically disability studies, examining how criteria of "normative" and "productive" are used to render humans and more-than-humans alike as disabled, and it appeals to animism as "activist affordance" to further complication traditional models of anthropology, inviting us into new modes of thinking with and being with the world.
agri 0028 regenerating relationships.docx"Restoring Relationships to Regenerate Land: Ecocultural Restoration and Regenerative Agriculture"
"Restoring Relationships to Regenerate Land: Ecocultural Restoration and Regenerative Agriculture"
This paper was written for an Independent Study course in Regenerative Agriculture during my time at Sierra College. Throughout the course, I explored different cultural interpretations of 'Regenerative Agriculture' and traced its development to various Indigenous knowledge systems, including Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ecocultural Restoration. The paper summarizes my findings and makes an argument that truly Regenerative Agriculture must center the regeneration of relationships between people and place.
Dispatches from Bed.docx"Dispatches From Bed: On the Intersection of Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation"
"Dispatches From Bed: On the Intersection of Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation"
"Dispatches From Bed: On the Intersection of Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation" is a creative non-fiction piece I wrote for Toyon Multilingual Journal of Literature and Art, Issue 71: Dispatches From the Global Antifada. This piece explores my personal experience as disabled person navigating a changing activist culture during protests on Cal Poly Humboldt's campus in Spring 2023. More importantly, it seeks to illuminate the interconnected struggles of disability justice and ending the mass disablement and genocide of Palestinian people.
The Grief Eater.docx"The Grief Eater"
"The Grief Eater"
"The Grief Eater" is a short piece of original fiction that pokes at the structures of modernity, with its culture of excesses and technological solutionism, while maintaining psychoanalytic distance for the reader. It was written with the intention to connect threads between systems of power and oppression and the genocide unfolding in Palestine.
phil 302 final paper.docx"From the Myth of Independence to An Interdependent Ethics of Care"
"From the Myth of Independence to An Interdependent Ethics of Care"
This paper was written for an Environmental Philosophy class while I was attending Cal Poly Humboldt. It focuses on the myth of independence which informs the rampant individualism underpinning modern culture, as well as the rhetoric of ableism which harms us all. Using Sunaura Taylor's work on Disability Justice, Aldo Leopold's land ethic, and bell hook's love ethic, it calls for ethics of care that recognize our interdependence with all of life.
crgs 331 final paper.docx"Crip-ling Desire"
"Crip-ling Desire"
"Crip-ling Desire" was writting for a Critical Race and Gender Studies class titled "Radical Futures". It is a transdiciplinary exploration - featuring art, poetry, and prose - about the affective privilege afforded to me through my experience of becoming/being disabled. It details my illness as an opportunity for greater belonging with the land, and centers textiles in my personal exploration of human/nature relationships.
"Socio-ecological Analysis of Clothing-Consumer Relationships"
"Socio-ecological Analysis of Clothing-Consumer Relationships"
This paper explores textiles in the context of the Anthropocene, with a keen eye cast towards clothing-consumer relationships, and the way that textile systems mediate the relationship between humans and the natural world. It employs auto-ethnography, ethnographic interviews, and student surveys, as well as critical analysis of the sociological and ecological impacts of clothing.
Research for this project is on-going.
Curriculum Development: Critical Textile Studies
Curriculum Development: Critical Textile Studies
For my senior thesis, I developed a curriculum for a course titled "Critical Textile Technologies". I structured my course around a ten-week course schedule model that is used by Cal Poly Humboldt's Campus Center for Appropriate Technology (CCAT).
“Critical Textile Technologies” is an introductory, but intensive, course that features both lab and lecture. It is culmination of my various studies throughout my undergraduate career and integrates bodies of knowledge from a multitude of disciplines, including environmental studies, agriculture, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, philosophy (ethics), critical race and gender studies, literature, art, and fashion/design.
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