Researcher and writer exploring the social and political significance of feelings and emotions.
I led a discussion on the relationship between Buddhism and consumer society's dependence on perpetual craving and the promise of satisfaction. We explored the Buddhist teaching of samsara to examine how cycles of suffering are sustained under capitalism, where satisfaction and fulfilment are sought after yet never fully realised.
This Feel Tank workshop was an experiment in reflecting on and exploring the complexity, ambivalence, and perhaps nonsensical nature of feelings. More information about this on my projects page.
I facilitated a discussion on the politics of desire at a Degrowth festival with activists and campaigners from across Europe. We explored how we may desire differently in ways not dependent on economic growth and consumption, with examples from our own lives of ways we find pleasure and happiness that are collectivist and anti-capitalist.
I have spent time living in Buddhist communities and organised retreats on meditation and ecology. In 2024, I was involved in setting up the "Transforming Self and World" group at the London Buddhist Centre, which involves regular public events on the applicability of Buddhist teachings to current social and political issues. I am trained in MBSR Teacher Training Level 1 from the Mindful Academy Solterreno and am currently training for ordination within the Triratna Buddhist community.
I am interested in the processes through which discourses of optimisation, efficiency, and productivity are culturally mobilised to justify harmful and high-risk technological developments. I have recently written about the dangers of transitioning to a digital cashless economy.
I am passionate about accessible, participatory and non-hierarchical forms of learning. I work at Kairos Counter-Club and am a member of the organising committee for AntiUniversity.
I recently co-designed an immersive digital accessibility workshop for LSE staff and academics at the Eden Centre for Education Enhancement, and ran a series of workshops on understanding sight loss through an intersectional lens in my previous role as Campaigns Officer at the Royal National Institute of Blind People.
I am drawn to alternative forms of community living and have lived and volunteered at various communities, co-housing projects, and ecovillages in the UK and Europe. The use of non-violent communication in communities is a particular interest.