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Power doesn’t only show up in speeches or headlines. It hides in paperwork, dashboards, and the tiny words that decide outcomes: must, eligible, denied. These are not neutral procedures. They are control mechanisms — deciding who gets care, who waits, and who disappears.

keeps the receipts. Each essay exposes how financial, technological, and bureaucratic systems manufacture exclusion, how they edit the record to protect themselves, and where cracks appear when people stop playing along.

You’ll find:

  • ledgers, audits, and dashboards that claim neutrality but enforce denial

  • refusal practices that turn private exhaustion into public evidence

  • grammar and rituals that make coercion feel inevitable

  • the economics of scarcity—and the industries built to defend it

These essays are written as investigations, not performances. The goal is to strip away alibis, to show the mechanics of coercion in detail, and to make alternatives easier to see and harder to dismiss.

If you’re here, you already know the system in your body. This is a place to name it, dissect it, and practice refusing it together.


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Tracing how financial, technological, and bureaucratic systems manufacture exclusion—and how clarity and refusal carve out cracks to live otherwise.

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I write Structural Memory, a forensic journal on how financial, technological, and bureaucratic systems quietly manufacture exclusion, and how we can still carve space to live otherwise.