What have we lost? Infertility, miscarriage, and disenfranchised grief.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This comic presents a personal narrative depicting the disenfranchised grief that comes along with infertility and pregnancy loss. The comic became a way to make sense of the relentless cycles of hope and disappointment that characterize infertility. Rather than focusing on the loss of a particular pregnancy, the grief depicted in this work centers on the endless possibility that a child might still be born. It focuses on the cruel optimism of the always possible child and how mourning is delayed for the next medical procedure. The comic explores the disenfranchised grief and psychological toll that infertility imposes, especially within a medical system that narrowly defines success as the birth of a baby and often overlooks the emotional needs of the majority who do not achieve that outcome. It also grapples with existential rupture that occurs when long-held reproductive stories and imagined futures begin to unravel. This work does not offer solutions or closure. Instead, it invites readers into the unresolved and often invisible emotional landscape of infertility.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".