In design, we debug what fails to respond.
But what if the system we’re inside is not digital, but bodily? Social? Symbolic?
Many women spend decades being formatted by external input. Performance coded into presentation. Approval looped into interface. But over time, the skin stops responding the same way. Clothes once worn to signal belonging begin to feel like a legacy version of someone else.
Where we once sought optimization, we now seek ownership.
Less visibility. More sovereignty.
This short reflection explores the idea of the body as an overwritten system, and what it means to reclaim root access, through presence instead of polish.
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