My writing practice grows from my training in body-based performance. The poetic force of my vision becomes language by first being channeled through my sensory body.
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Poetry
While I consider everything I do to be driven by my sensitivity to the poetic fabric of reality, I have specifically written three poems that I consider worth their salt.
The first poem is about my disabled ancestor.
The second poem is about the colonial imagination, and unwinding the trauma in the mythic garden of the origin of the Western world.
The third poem is about meeting Palestinian poet, Mosab Abu Toha.
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Poetic Essays
My preferred form of writing is creative non-fiction. Specifically, first-person essays. This allows me to write with poetic freedom while still being contained in a narrative-driven form.
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Scholarship
My artistic practice is supported by rigorous scholarship on colonialism, disability studies, the philosophy of science, and the medical humanities. My scholarship has been published in MIT Press, Routledge, Society for Disability Studies, Intellect Press and more.
I also love pushing the form that scholarship can take, and have published two essays that are poetic conversations with collaborators.
This apparently doesn’t please Academia.