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Stern explores the dissociation trauma response as a potential form of resistance and as a narrative device, using The Substance by Coralie Fargeat, the Biblical story of Joseph, and work by authors-artists Ana Mendieta, Bhanu Kapil, and Johanna Hedva. Stern reflects on aging, a fading of beauty and body and female self-erasure, proposing that lying down, going underground, or inhabiting dissociative spaces, “holes in the wall”, can be acts of resistance and a chance to reclaim agency.