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Beyond Prescription: Naming Grief, Refusing Erasure

An interdisciplinary examination of ecofeminist theory, cultural identity, and relationality.

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Your Air Jordan 4 "Industrial Blue" sneakers wear out after four months. You replace them. Your iPhone slows down after you update it? You replace it. Your health provider switches networks. You start over.

A package is delayed by three hours and you're already in the tracking portal, refreshing. Even grief, in this system, seems like it should come with a return window.

We are trained to believe that what breaks should be replaced. A cracked cup; a burned forest; a relationship that becomes inconvenient — replacement promises relief without reflection...

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