Sandy is a writer & feminist academic working in the intersections of art, philosophy, politics and technology. The primary objective of her work is to queer (or problematise) familiar tropes assigned to women in contemporary culture. As such, her work sheds light on invisibilised, institutional practices which affect women's autonomy, in particular, ideological assumptions surrounding maternality.

Sandy questions and explores the interface between woman/motherhood/work contemplating the role of (re)productive labour. Her research, grounded in feminist political philosophy, asks if emancipation from ‘the motherhood penalty’ is possible. This research is in large part motivated by her own lived experiences of institutionalised discrimination as a single, working class mother and the time lost to the mundanity and oppression of unwaged reproductive labour.

Sandy credits the shift in her own philosophy to the reading of Sylvia Federici, Selma James, Shulamith Firestone and the radical feminisms of the 70's. Their works posed an existential question to her as she reflected on her own experiences of reproductive labor. Conceiving of her role of mother as worker, an unremunerated, uncompensated contributor to the capitalocene, her work is an act of resistance in the most Foucauldian sense. Thus, as academic/mother/writer/artist/activist, Sandy challenges heteronormative assumptions about (m)other work, problematising essentialised tropes of reproduction.

Sandy hopes to ignite a novel conversation around the techno-biopolitics of ectogenesis as a potential emancipatory theory. She invites influence from disciplines of radical feminisms, xenofeminism and biopolitics to problematise dominant ideology of the maternal. She is perpetually inspired by artistic responses to maternality and the (m)other subject. Her own work, though predominantly academic, finds its expression also in sculpture, collage and paint, with works exploring gyno-grief, loss and maternal subjectivity.