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Latest essays, updates, field notes, and published posts.

• The Bureaucracy of Survival

  A Blackthorn Field Notes essay on disability, poverty, fragmented social services, and the hidden labor of surviving systems that do not talk to each other.

• Using AI in the Creative Process Ethically

  AI is not inherently unethical. The ethical question is how it is used, who it harms, who it helps, and whether creators are honest about the role it played in the work.

• Just Because AI Can Doesn’t Mean It Should

  AI is powerful, fast, and increasingly capable, but capability is not readiness. Businesses rushing to replace human judgment with automation may be creating systems they no longer fully understand, govern, or control.

• The People You Leave Behind

  An essay on LGBTQ+ solidarity, historical memory, and the growing push to separate trans and queer people from the community that once survived together.

• Password Security Isn’t Paranoia. It’s Basic Survival.

  Why password managers matter, why password sharing is dangerous, and why multi-factor authentication should be standard for everyone.

• The Relationship You Were Promised No Longer Exists

  Modern relationships are changing because women are no longer trapped by dependence. Equality did not ruin relationships. It changed what healthy partnership requires.

• Technology Should Make Life Easier, Not More Fragile

  Technology should reduce friction, not move the burden of broken systems onto the people with the least power.

• Welcome to Blackthorn Field Notes

  The launch of Blackthorn Field Notes: a place for advocacy, disability, systems, survival, and the work of staying human.

• Relationships Are a Tightrope Act

  A relationship is not one person keeping balance for two. It is shared responsibility, repair, and the work of staying steady together.

• Disabled Does Not Mean Life Is Over

  Disabled does not mean someone’s life is over.