One Body of Work
Writing
The scholarly and the imaginative, drawn as one body of work. What is, and what could be.
The Black Cell
A dystopian novel in the tradition of Afrofuturist literature. The Black Cell imagines a future shaped by the same structural forces Wendy's scholarly work analyzes, carried forward into a world that has stopped pretending the systems are accidental.
Find on Amazon"This novel is a worthy contribution to Afrofuturism literature. I highly, highly, recommend it."
A. Adar Ayira, Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression Educator
When Helping Isn't Enough: The SHARP Framework
Flagship Paper
The foundational paper that introduces the SHARP Framework as a practical lens for analyzing systems that shape human outcomes. It offers practitioners a way to examine structural oppression, historical context, professional roles, reciprocity, and power in the decisions they make every day.
The Helping Evaluation and Leadership Practice Review (HELP-R)
Tool for Supervision
A supervision and self-assessment tool that helps practitioners and leaders reflect on whether their practice aligns with the values they hold. It brings structure to the kind of honest reflection that most professional environments do not make room for.
Critiques of Trauma-Informed Systems
Encyclopedia of Social Work
An entry in the Encyclopedia of Social Work that examines the limits of trauma-informed approaches when they are adopted by systems without examining the structural conditions that produce trauma in the first place.
Undoing Racism
Forthcoming, with Ron Chisom
Stories from an antiracist organizer. This forthcoming book, co-authored with Ron Chisom, continues the work of naming what systems do and imagining what they could do instead. It tells the stories that rarely get written down: the slow, unglamorous, deeply human work of building something better.