Slow death
The slow attrition of bodies and lives through conditions that are structural rather than acute — poverty, exhaustion, bureaucratic abandonment, the chronic management of impossibility. Berlant’s slow death does not arrive as crisis. It accumulates. It produces a gradual narrowing of the possible that institutions can observe without being required to name as harm, because no single moment constitutes the injury. The injury is the duration.
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Iatrogenic harm and the parent advocate: how school systems produce disability in the families they fail
The body keeps the account even when the institution refuses to. What the school system produced in the parent who spent years trying to hold it accountable is not caregiver burden — a word that belongs to the person carrying it — but iatrogenic harm: specific, dated, attributable, and fully known to the institutions that…