Writing
Tkaronto is a place for sustenance
In this brief, I reflect on my work with Tkaronto Plant Life and emphasize Toronto as an important food production place. I argue that Indigenous, Black, and urban food systems must be recognized and supported in food and agricultural policy.
This Brief is an extension of and in dialogue with the Yellowhead Special Report, “Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Ontario: A Study of Exclusion at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs.”
During my time with Finding Our Power Together, I supported a research project titled Bridging the Gaps. In this article, we reflect on the program and examine how Indigenous youth navigate mental health systems in the Greater Toronto Area, highlighting the structural barriers they encounter and their visions for culturally grounded, relational, and Indigenous-led approaches to wellness.
The Right to Be Well: Mapping mental health service gaps for urban indigenous youth
Afterword Begin with a refusal
In this co-authored afterword, we bring land and our relations into a conversation about refusal and decolonization in higher education. Through a series of vignettes, we reflect on what plants, water, animals, memory, and community can teach us about interrupting and reimagining the university.
Exploring the Possibilities of Settler Filipino Food Sovereignty in Toronto
My MA Thesis interviewed six Filipinx/a/o farmers in the Toronto area, and we reflected on what it means to build good relations with Anishinaabae and Haudenosaunee territories as settlers. We discuss the possibilities of food sovereignty for our diasporic community.
The outcome of this thesis was a community zine, which can be viewed in the “Projects” tab.