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Beyond Choice: The Biology of Survival on Florida’s Space Coast

Homelessness is often framed as a personal failure. But on Florida’s Space Coast, survival itself becomes a biological burden. Through interviews, public health research, and investigative analysis, this article explores how chronic stress, sleep deprivation, heat exposure, and instability reshape the human body and mind—revealing a reality that goes far beyond choice.

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America the Beautiful… But Broken

America the Beautiful… But Broken” is a visual and narrative exposé revealing the hidden costs of a system that drives people into poverty, addiction, and despair. Beneath the anthem and the flag lies a society where survival itself has become criminalized. This project seeks to expose the silence around systemic injustice — not out of hate for America, but out of love for what it could still become.

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