Publications

This page gathers my long-form writing on power, compliance, and the social contracts we’re never taught how to negotiate.

These articles and essays examine how authority, persuasion, privilege, and poverty shape who can resist, who must comply, and how silence becomes a survival strategy when protection is unequal. Some pieces draw directly from lived experience; others step back to examine patterns that show up across workplaces, families, institutions, and systems.

Together, this work asks a central question: who gets to say no—and what happens to those who can’t?