This research presents Afro-surrealism as a cultural framework for understanding Black lived experience beyond traditional models. By examining concepts such as strategic masking, inherent distortions, and temporal collapse, it demonstrates how alternative perspectives can inform cultural analysis, technology, design, and public history while generating more inclusive and innovative approaches to complex problems.

This dissertation reinterprets the French Revolution through the lens of care ethics, analysing the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft and Sophie de Grouchy. The research argues that these thinkers anticipated modern theories of care, interdependence, and gender equality, offering early proto-feminist visions of social institutions grounded in community and mutual responsibility.

This research analyzes medieval letters between Heinrich Seuse and Margaret Ebner to explore alternative models of personhood. Through communal reading practices, Margaret is celebrated as complex and indeterminate. The study challenges rigid Western identity norms, highlighting a theological tradition that embraces ambiguity and values personhood beyond fixed categories and binaries.