JARELL BEMPONG · WRITING
Books, personal essays, published articles and ideas by Jarell Bempong, founder of Turncurrent. His writing moves between identity and belonging, care and culture, power and leadership, human experience and technological systems. Each piece retains its original authorship, publication context and date.
THE BOOK · OCTOBER 2023
A Journey Through Systemic Biases to Mental Health Empowerment. In his first book, Jarell Bempong examines cultural assumptions in mental healthcare and what happens when people's identities and contexts are overlooked.
20 October 2023 · Original LinkedIn essay
A first-person exploration of racial fetishisation, dignity and the psychological complexity of seeking authentic connection. The essay was later quoted and analysed in the Canadian Review of Sociology (2026).
Read Jarell’s original 2023 essay →14 May 2026
Why systems that treat harm as a one-off event keep repeating it.
Read Accountability Isn't a Moment →7 May 2026
Why what we don't revisit keeps shaping what happens next.
Read The Return Is the System →6 November 2025
What happens when technology built to monitor people is presented as support.
Read When AI Surveillance Masquerades as Care →FROM THE ARCHIVE
Explore original first-person essays and externally published work. These pieces were published under Jarell's name, including work from before Turncurrent.
Original essay · LinkedIn · 27 July 2023
Identity, self-acceptance and the search for culturally conscious psychotherapy.
Read the essayOriginal essay · LinkedIn · 24 October 2023
How identities are concealed, translated and negotiated within professional systems.
Read the essayPublished article · Life Coach Directory · 6 July 2023
Relationships, acceptance and cultural context, written by J. Bempong for Life Coach Directory.
Read the originalPublished article · Life Coach Directory · 21 July 2023
Perfectionism, self-worth and room for imperfection.
Read the originalCommissioned contribution · Universal Workforce Magazine · 2024
A commissioned 2024 magazine contribution about neurodivergent leadership, inclusion and the conditions shaping people's opportunities at work.
Original writing · Public policy · 2023–2024
Founder-authored representations about inequalities in mental healthcare, including correspondence that received a response from the Department of Health and Social Care. Private constituency material is not published.
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