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Ultimately, I demonstrate how these literary diagnostics mobilize women’s embodied experience to consider a more holistic approach to contemporary issues including mental health, one that takes into consideration the existent power structures and their impact on issues of knowledge-making, ethics, and racial and social justice. 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