FEATURES
Pain - A Pleasure Principle
"What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle"
Freud (Civilization and Its Discontents)
TEMPORALITIES OF HIV/AIDS
A BRIEF ENCOUNTER WITH THE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTISTIC EXPRESSION OF THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC OF 1980S
The Water Economy and Toxic Health Disparities in South Louisiana
THROUGH STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE AND RACIAL INEQUALITIES, COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN DISPLACED AND LEFT VULNERABLE TO INCREASED RISK OF CHRONIC ILLNESS AND TRAUMATIC REALITIES IN LOUISIANA. THIS EXAMINES THE STATES’ COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP WITH WATER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE DEEPLY EMBEDDED AND TRAUMATIC HEALTH DISPARITIES IN THE AREA.
Climate Change: Unmasking Superpower Accountability in a Crisis of Inequality
Climate change embodies global inequality, driven by superpowers like the US and China (over 40% historical emissions) prioritizing profits, harming the Global South and marginalized groups via environmental racism. Policy failures and corporate complicity hinder progress; solutions require decolonizing action, equity, and grassroots accountability for 1.5°C goals.
Echoes of the Body: Indigenous Knowledge, Myth, and the Universal Processes of Healing in the Pacific
Drawing from Pacific Island Indigenous traditions I look at an approach to healing that views illness as dissonance in a web of relationships, healed through myths, stories, rituals like trance states, Talanoa (open storytelling), and kava-sharing ceremonies. These practices foster community, symbolism, and reconnection to a timeless pattern, emphasizing growth as reweaving frayed threads rather than mere repair. Ultimately, healing emerges from collective meaning, embodiment, and returning to human connection amid modern distractions.