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Gazans have adapted to chronic danger, living in a state of hypervigilance, emotional numbness, and dissociation amid the slow erasure of any imagined future.
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Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2025
In the barrios of the American Southwest, chola girls perfected their look with dark lip liner, oversized flannels, and nameplate earrings, styling themselves with fierce precision that both declared loyalty and warded off erasure.
—Alexandra Jane, Essence, 31 July 2025
An invitation to fight forward against erasure, to integrate my culture and my country together, wholly.
—Natalie Guerrero
july 28, Literary Hub, 28 July 2025
All of this against a backdrop of attacks on DEI and erasure of Black history — a coordinated assault on Black and brown lives.
—Nkechi Taifa, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2025
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Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2025
In the barrios of the American Southwest, chola girls perfected their look with dark lip liner, oversized flannels, and nameplate earrings, styling themselves with fierce precision that both declared loyalty and warded off erasure.
—Alexandra Jane, Essence, 31 July 2025
An invitation to fight forward against erasure, to integrate my culture and my country together, wholly.
—Natalie Guerrero
july 28, Literary Hub, 28 July 2025
All of this against a backdrop of attacks on DEI and erasure of Black history — a coordinated assault on Black and brown lives.
—Nkechi Taifa, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2025
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“Erasure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erasure. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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erasure
noun
era·sure
i-ˈrā-shər 
also -zhər
: an act or instance of erasing
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