Publications
This page gathers my published 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?
Featured Articles & Essays
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A reflection on how power feels when you don’t have it: how authority decides who is believed, who is protected, and why survival often looks nothing like resistance from the outside.
An exploration of compliance not as weakness, but as a rational survival strategy inside unequal power dynamics where refusal carries real and uneven consequences.
