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Daisy Ozim

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HYPERDIMENSIONAL URBAN PLANNING

Hi all, here is the manual we put out regarding new energy, water and internet systems. You can actually test these out at NEWKEMISTRY.COM https://tinyurl.com/2p867h9c In the event of chemical disaster due to PFAS in the environment, destabilization of systems and inflation, we have a series of tools we are putting out to support the transition to a more stable system that is automated and without bureaucratic rigging.

I Didn't Get My Just Due: Toxic Adults/Elders in Youth Organizing Spaces

And so it is… I dove head first into advocacy and organizing when I was 18. As a formerly homeless youth , the only thing that kept my head on straight and out of trouble was getting involved and supporting the community. I’ve been blessed to be able to work across the world ever since with amazing people doing radical work. Fast forward some years and while I still have passion and drive for organizing work, I am much more aware and selective in who I deal with. I would be a liar if I said...

Skin is Money: Anti-Blackness, Social Capital and the Appearance of Worthiness for Women of Color

This article covers how perceived notions of skin tone influence levels of self-worth and self-efficacy. Proving that the over abundant portrayal of whiteness as the epitome of beauty and wealth has profound impacts on the psyche of people of color. Furthermore, research results indicate that interracial relationships are based on a foundational sense of financial security.

Slow Poison: How Policy and Philanthropy Perpetuate Trauma

Many of us work tirelessly to end the multiple forms of structural violence and oppression that manifest as health inequities, income inequality, mass incarceration, dilapidated education systems and more. However, all must ask a very relevant and critical question: what is the end goal here? To answer quite simply, it’s genocide. Yes, genocide. Lets be clear, there is a recipe for chaos. From afar, it may seem as though there are several moving parts to this puzzle and everything is...

Young Adult Court: Ending Mass Incarceration with Trauma Informed Criminal Justice

The last two decades have given rise to a body of research establishing that young adults are fundamentally different from both juveniles and older adults in how they process information and make decisions. The prefrontal cortex of the brain — responsible for our cognitive processing and impulse control — does not fully develop until the early to mid-20s. At the same time that young adults are going through this critical developmental phase, many find themselves facing adulthood without...

Gun Violence: An Issue of Male Fragility, Colonialism and Conquest

Violence in all of its manifestations is a part of the fabric of American history. One cannot address violence without addressing institutionalized racism, the legacy of colonialism and religious conquest. Often times, when we do discuss violence within poverty stricken communities, we forget these key factors. We forget the trauma of these various historical incidences have yet to be addressed. We forget that violence within these communities, are stemming from dysfunctional coping...

Trauma as a Gateway Drug

Alcohol, Cannabis , trauma? Cannabis, or marijuana, has been deemed the "gateway" drug for years, carrying the stigma that its use is a pathway for potential abuse/use of "harder drugs". Although the studies have shown that alcohol as the actual gateway drug Cannabis is still attributed to drug use. What is hardly mentioned is the fact that trauma, sustained over long periods of time, actually alters the brain's prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for risk taking behaviors, moral...

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