about
I hope you’re doing well! It’s an honor to have you here.
My name is Sandra Jaunita Stevenson. I’m an independent researcher and narrative storyteller building a long-term project on hidden moral codes and parallel social systems — the unwritten rules that actually govern human behavior outside of formal law.
Across criminal groups, institutions, workplaces, and intimate social circles, people don’t live by official rules alone.
They live by invisible codes: loyalty tests, honor systems, exile rituals, reputation economies, informal justice, and shadow hierarchies that determine who is protected, who is sacrificed, and who is silenced.
My work documents these systems through narrative investigations that combine historical research, first-person accounts, cultural analysis, and real case studies.
I focus less on sensationalism and more on pattern recognition — tracing how the same moral structures quietly repeat across very different worlds.
This project is in its foundation phase. I currently publish digital investigations that explore everything from prison honor codes and criminal brotherhoods to workplace blacklists, neighborhood functions and barbershops.
Long-term, this work is designed to expand into on-the-ground cultural field research and cross-platform documentary storytelling as access and funding grow.
I’m interested in the invisible systems that shape people’s lives more than official laws ever do — and in telling the stories most people only understand after they feel the heat of violating the invisible rules.
how’d i get here?
As a child, I lived with selective mutism and social anxiety, and well into adulthood I often felt out of step in social spaces—aware that rules were being followed, but unsure how they were learned or enforced.
I sensed consequences, exclusions, and judgments long before I understood their logic.
Over time, I realized that much of the suffering people experience doesn’t come from breaking formal laws, but from violating invisible social rules they were never taught.
Again and again, I saw people quietly exiled, punished without explanation, or undone by reputational systems that everyone participates in, but few openly acknowledge.
I became interested in mapping these parallel moral systems—not to romanticize them, but to understand how power, loyalty, honor, belonging, and punishment actually function in everyday life.
This work is my attempt to make the invisible visible, and to bring language to the social forces that shape our lives in ways we’re rarely taught to name.
Support is greatly appreciated!
If my work has opened your mind, helped you see the world in a refreshing way, or you simply want to support, you can do so here.
Your donation directly funds deeper research, better storytelling, and on-the-ground exploration.
Thank you for helping this work exist!