Fragments
Fragments is a space for longer blog posts and essays that grow out of my ongoing work. It brings together sustained reflections on Black queer survival, abolitionist care, and collective world-building, offering writing that stays with questions rather than rushing toward resolution.
Recent Posts
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When Institutions Demand Our Labour but Not Our Voices
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being invited into a space only to realize that your presence was the priority, not your voice. The expectation was that you would show up, fill the quota, sit on the panel, make the institution look good—without challenging its structure,…
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The Weight of Absence: On Boundaries, Accountability, and the Politics of Disappearance
There are moments when absence carries more weight than presence. When the space someone leaves behind doesn’t just signal distance, but a rupture. A confirmation of something you hadn’t yet said aloud. Not all harm is loud. Some betrayals unfold in silence. Sometimes, the deepest wounds are not from what…
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Joy, Survival, and the Refusal to Be Broken
Notes from a Night of Performance and Resistance As Saidiya Hartman reminds us, Black life moves through the tension of mourning and survival, a condition intensified for Black queer and trans people whose very existence challenges the terms of the social order. In a world structured by anti-Blackness, where exhaustion…
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A Gesture of Hate
In the aftermath of Elon Musk’s unmistakable Nazi salutes at Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 January 2025, much of the media coverage has predictably veered toward obfuscation, excuse-making, and, most disturbingly, a kind of ableist scapegoating. Instead of calling out the gesture for what it is—an unambiguous alignment with fascist…
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Urgent Call for Dalhousie to Divest from Companies Complicit in Israeli Occupation
Dear Members of the Dalhousie University Board of Governors, As a current doctoral student at Dalhousie University, I feel compelled to speak out on an issue that goes to the very heart of our shared values as an academic institution. The university’s investments in companies complicit in the illegal Israeli…