Takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’.
I’m a writer in Manhattan by way of Colorado. In 2023, I started graduate work at The New School for Social Research.
How do religious schemas and scripts impact cognitive and affective processes? I was a sixth-generation Mormon, born and raised and married in the church. After leaving the faith in my late twenties, I became intensely curious about how chronic trauma gets embedded in cosmology.
I am deeply anti-authoritarian but not anti-religion. This, I’ve found, makes fertile ground for study. Looking back on the 20th century, I’m inspired by the rich, interdisciplinary movements in philosophy, psychology, and decolonial theory that arose from the ashes of war. In the 21st century, I hope post-Mormon academia strives for this intellectual horizon. We are of the world, not simply in it.
As I work to psychoanalytic contributions by way of a PhD, I’m writing a memoir about undoings, devotion, and identity. You can find me on Instagram and Substack.