Call It What It Is: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman (CPG) Continuum

An institutional reproductive power model. How mission-driven institutions recruit hope, extract from the people who carry it, and turn on them the moment they begin to see clearly.

*CPG saw the architecture before most people could. She named the wallpaper. She understood that confinement dressed as care was still confinement. And her vision had a ceiling she was unwilling to examine; a liberated future built for some women and not others. I name this after her because the continuum requires both things to be true simultaneously: …