The CPG Continuum: Mapping the Architecture of Institutional Confinement and Extraction
A work in progress with enduring gratitude for CPG who refused the color yellow and systemic patterns of oppression as much as I do.*
*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: the clarity and the limit. That is exactly what the continuum is designed to hold.
**This is a dominant pattern, not a totalizing explanation.
***This framework describes institutional dynamics rather than inherent traits of individuals or groups. Historical theorists whose work is situated in their time and is used here for conceptual, not normative, authority.
****This is a structural interpretive model of institutional dynamics, not an empirical claim about all individuals within any group.
*****This is not only an emerging framework for understanding institutional behavior (still in development), this framework emerged from a lived experience inside mission-driven institutions and from observing recurring patterns across nonprofit, philanthropic, and advocacy systems. It is offered as a map, not the map.