Jaime Dunkle is a writer, artist, and cultural critic exploring resistance, identity, and spirituality through multimedia storytelling.

Welcome to my anfractuous multidisciplinary storytelling website where you will find the writing, art, photography, music, and video experiments of a lifelong poet, peaceful anarchist, and budding Buddhist.

Please join me in resisting biopolitical idiocracy through the pursuit of creative arts, personal insights, and political documentation that is meant to build social networks of solidarity for those against the grain of status quo.

My work consciously disrupts dominant culture expectations of linear and 24/7 click-bait content. Instead, I work rhythmically and in bursts toward what moves me deeply. I create for self-reflection, thoughtful discourse, and social engagement. My truest wish is to inspire others to experiment with creativity, especially as a way to build community.

If any of this sounds appealing to you, please follow any of the intimate threads my site offers that weave resistance, peace, and art together as a way to stay awake, connected, and aware.

---

Check Out My Art, Podcast, Blogs, and the Other Stuff I Do

Art: The beautiful spirit of New Orleans has reawakened the visual artist in me. Ever since relocating, I’ve embraced painting, drawing and collage more deeply. I use Cara to share my portfolio.

Art of Peace Podcast: I host this show in collaboration with NOLA Aikido dojo. Episodes cover topics such as compassion, self-inquiry, and fostering a growth mindset.

Lotus Budo: This blog features notes on the intersection of Buddhism & Aikido. You can expect more posts here soon. Please subscribe for updates.

On Writing: In this series, I share writing tips that have helped me over the years. If you like what is here so far, please let me know! Maybe it will inspire me to post something new.

Photography: In a past life, I was a multimedia journalist. I have since turned the lens toward capturing the beauty of the moment. As I dismantle my Instagram, I prefer to share my favorite photos here.

Retroactive Beatnik: This section shares tidbits from my research on beatnik women as I corral materials for my forthcoming book that I am currently pitching to agents.

Witness & Resist: An autotheory blog that bears witness to our rapidly eroding civil rights in the U.S. and resists the so-called proper (brainwashing) ideologies of bigotry.

Coming Soon: Short moody video experiments. I need to move them off of social media. And my ambient music…eventually.

---

Thank you for visiting. Please subscribe to my personal newsletter and be the first to learn about new blog posts. And feel free to reach out and let me know what you liked about my work, or if you’re interested in hiring me.