About This Blog

Hey there—thanks for stopping by this little corner of the internet.

Invicta Maneo means “I remain unvanquished.” It’s a reminder I return to when life gets heavy: after trauma, after loss, after moments I wasn’t sure I’d make it through.

This blog is a space for reflection, honesty, and the questions I can’t always fit into academic work—or polite conversation.

This summer, I’m traveling through Rwanda, Northern Ireland, and the UK to study how communities recover after violence. But this isn’t just about research. It’s about memory. Grief. Grace. What it means to stay soft in a hard world—and what healing actually looks like when you’re living it in real time.

Here, I share:

✍️ Stories and insights from reconciliation work

🐾 Reflections on grief, healing, and life with (and now, without) my dogs

🧠 Big questions I don’t have answers to, like:

Why are we here?
Why do we stay?
What really matters?

Some posts are academic-ish. Some are about crying in airports. Some are messy. Some are stitched together from joy. All are just me.

This is where I stay human—and maybe help someone else do the same.

💌 Want to follow the journey?
I send occasional notes from the road—raw, real, and written from wherever I am. Sometimes Kigali. Sometimes Belfast. Sometimes just my own heart.

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Thanks for being here.

—Genevieve