I have written various works, both fiction and non-fiction, on themes of climate change, feminism, and disability. I try to write personally and intentionally. These intertwine with both my personal political investments as well as my academic interests, majoring in both Philosophy and Gender Studies.
COVID is over, right?
"We cannot exist in the world acting as if disabled lives are disposable. The pandemic is not over."This article links the personal experience of COVID with analysis of the political nature of the state's disappearing response to COVID to highlight the necessity of the community to engage in masking.This article was written for the 2025 Disabilities edition of Honi Soit.Learn more about the Disabilities Collective's masking campaign here.
What Happened to School Strike for Climate?
"We must no longer deify SS4C (or what’s left of it anyway) as the be-all and end-all of the climate movement"This mini essay looks back on what contributed to the collapse of SS4C, discussing factors within the broader political landscape of the Black Summer bushfires, COVID, and a Labor government. It resists pessimism and defeat, calling on everyone to continue acting, perhaps elsewhere.This article was written for the 2025 edition of Combust, the USyd Environment Collective's annual publication.
Only Love Can Liberate Us
"Insisting on an essentially violent nature in men distances us from truly positive visions of them with whom we can work toward communities that foster accountability, safety, and justice."This article takes an abolitionist approach to patriarchal violence, arguing that we must enact feminism intersectionally and in good faith.This article was written for the 2025 edition of Growing Strong, the USyd Women's Collective's annual publication.
Strike!
Over 2023, Kayla undertook the Testing Grounds program produced by Curious Works where she developed a TV dramedy series that explores what takes place behind the scenes in youth climate activism.Strike! looks at climate activists in their natural elements as the typical adolescent problems of friendship, school, relationships, and identity become intertwined with the existential fight for climate action.Strike! is supported in 2024-2025 by the Australian Cultural Fund and Lesbians Incorporated.
Action Not Hope
Kayla was featured in this short documentary for AFTRS directed by Zebedee Parkes about climate activism after the Black Summer, and how we can fit 'hope' within our philosophy for climate action among great despair.
A Radical Hope
Kayla was featured in an award-winning documentary directed by Zebedee Parkes for the 2022 Dare to Struggle Film Festival. It followed three SS4C Sydney organisers preparing for a strike outside Scott Morrison's house before the Federal Election.
La Niña
Kayla's debut project is a poetry suite composed over 2021 and 2022 for her HSC English Extension 2 Major Work. Embedded in religious allusion, La Niña explores motherhood, grief, and survival amid devastating floods.
At the hour of dusk,
we too, lay exhausted,
but, perhaps nearer
to Paradise.