The Sacred Return: From Feminism to Matriarchy

Sex Work and the Reclamation of Power in the 21st Century

This ethnographic study examines sex work as both a symptom and a subversion of contemporary feminist collapse — tracing how digital platforms, performance, and self-curation have transformed the labor of desire into a language of reclamation.
Through a lens of cultural anthropology and critical media analysis, the research explores how sex work—long dismissed as exploitation—has become a modern matriarchal ritual: a reassertion of agency, authorship, and the body as both archive and altar.

By engaging with sex workers, media texts, and online communities, this work interrogates the boundaries between liberation and commodification, the performative and the sacred, and ultimately, how the feminine has reemerged as both the product and producer of her own mythology in the digital age.

We’re Still Fighting: The Art of Becoming Revolutionary

This project is a multimedia ethnography of 21st-century resistance—examining how art, protest, and digital storytelling function as rituals of remembrance and revolution. Through a feminist and diasporic lens, the research traces the emotional and aesthetic lineage of social movements from the feminist resurgence of the 2010s to the Black Lives Matter uprisings of 2020. It interrogates how Black cultural expression, online activism, and visual media became tools of collective healing and insurgent visibility during the Trump administration. By archiving protest art, social media discourse, and oral histories, the study illuminates how communities transform trauma into testimony, and how rebellion evolves into a living, intergenerational art form.

The Ethnography of Eros: Love in the Age of the Algorithm

A Reflexive Ethnography on Digital Intimacy and Performativity

This ethnographic study examines how love, desire, and digital culture converge in the age of algorithmic matchmaking. Using dating apps as field sites, it investigates how individuals perform identity, intimacy, and affection through the lens of data and design. The project explores how algorithmic systems not only mediate human connection but also script new rituals of visibility, vulnerability, and validation.

Through reflexive fieldwork and narrative inquiry, The Ethnography of Eros reframes dating as both a social experiment and a cultural performance—where authenticity is curated, affection is quantified, and connection is both hyper-accessible and profoundly detached. The research situates modern courtship within a broader anthropology of selfhood, technology, and performative love, asking: what happens when the pursuit of connection becomes a form of content creation?

The Paradox of Collectivism

Individualism, Identity, and Isolation in South Florida’s Creative Subculture

This research investigates the social dynamics, aesthetic labor, and identity formation within Miami’s creative and music subcultures. Through in-depth interviews, participant observation, nightlife ethnography, and media analysis, it examines how the pursuit of collective identity and cultural belonging paradoxically reinforces individualism, competition, and emotional isolation. The project situates local artists and creative workers within a globalized cultural economy, exploring how they negotiate authenticity, community, and creative survival amid the tensions between collaboration and self-promotion.

Beauty, Intelligence & the Legally Blonde Paradigm:

An Ethnography of Femininity, Power, and Perception in Contemporary Culture

This ethnographic media study examines the sociocultural relationship between beauty, intellect, and female identity in Western popular culture, using Legally Blonde as both a text and field site. Through feminist theory, semiotic analysis, and autoethnographic reflection, the research interrogates how femininity operates as a performative strategy of resistance and survival within patriarchal institutions of education and professional legitimacy. It explores how beauty becomes both a form of cultural capital and social constraint—revealing the ways women navigate visibility, intelligence, and self-presentation as modes of power negotiation in academic and media systems. The study situates Legally Blonde as a lens through which the intersections of gender, class, and aspiration illuminate broader cultural mythologies about empowerment, meritocracy, and the performance of womanhood.