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Cam’s confusion is represented by externalizing his inner voice into a double, “the angel on my shoulder and, honestly, sometimes the devil,” with whom he argues, like a difficult imaginary friend.

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“A Fantastic Woman” is still a movie that is externalizing a trans experience, because why is she a fantastic woman?

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"The solution to some kind of environmental damage was simply externalized to somewhere else. It was shifted basically to the global south."

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Phthalate exposure is just one way the plastics industry externalizes harms.

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Research has long suggested a link between mothers' mental health during pregnancy and children's externalizing behaviors.

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