Beyond Prescription: Naming Grief, Refusing Erasure

This essay explores how intersectional ecology can serve as a framework for understanding cultural identity, media, and philosophical thought. Drawing on perspectives from cultural studies and media analysis, it considers how whiteness and other identity structures shape both human, animal and human, environment relations. By weaving together interrelational studies and the ethics of representation, the work situates ecological concerns within broader questions of identity and cultural memory. Rather than treating ecology, philosophy, and cultural analysis as separate domains, the essay argues for their interconnectedness as a way to better document lived experience and everyday acts of cultural meaning-making. The essay is presented here as a preprint for open peer review, with a final enhanced edition to follow.