Education / UT Austin / Class of 2021
Stories shape
what comes next.
Academic work from The University of Texas at Austin, exploring narrative, collective imagination, and the futures we build together.
Selected thesis
All Mutual Aid is
Speculative Fiction
Critical Fabulation and its Role in Achieving Abolition
Adapted from my work at UT Austin, my thesis interrogates how narrative framing shapes community survival and political imagination.
Read the thesis ↓Why this work matters to me
Storytelling as
an act of possibility.
Writing this paper fundamentally shifted how I see the world. It made me realize that storytelling isn't just a reflective act or a passive form of expression—it's an active, creative strategy for survival and world-building. I am passionate about narrative because the stories we choose to tell (and how we choose to tell them) dictate what kind of futures we allow ourselves to imagine and build. Exploring critical fabulation showed me that radical care and mutual aid are, at their core, acts of collective imagination: we have to be able to tell the story of a better world before we can bring it into reality.
The complete paper