Intermediate Vocabulary
**basic vocabulary**
festivity | heritage | kinship | devotion | homage | nostalgia
sentiment | legacy | reunion | tribute | camaraderie | intergenerational bonds
**cultural traditions**
iconography | ancestral veneration | rites of passage | ceremonial dances | filial piety ceremonies
oral storytelling | folk symbolism | diasporic adaptations | secularized observances | matrilineal heritage
**emotions & relationships**
ambivalence | codependency | emotional labor | psychological resilience | unspoken hierarchies
vicarious joy | transactional dynamics | attachment theory | emotional reciprocity | cognitive dissonance
**modern influences**
algorithmic curation | digital detachment | influencer-driven trends | curated authenticity | parasocial relationships
experience economy | attention economy | virtue signaling | cancel culture | algorithm-driven consumerism
**social issues**
intersectional feminism | caregiving burnout | pronatalist policies | systemic inequities | emotional capitalism
reproductive justice | nuclear family critique | emotional gatekeeping | performative allyship | generational wealth gaps
**historical & global terms**
proto-feminist movements | Neolithic fertility cults | Victorian domesticity | postwar baby booms | dematerialized rituals
Juno Moneta cult | Sumerian Ninhursag | Celtic Brigid rites | Confucian filial ethics | transnational motherhood
**challenge words**
commodification of affection | affective neoliberalism | techno-emotional interfaces | sacrificial archetypes
heteronormative frameworks | intersectional erasure | emotional proletarianization | postcolonial motherhood
**phrases & idioms**
navigate emotional terrain | weaponized gratitude | emotional bandwidth | inherit cultural baggage
deconstruct societal narratives | commodified nostalgia | gatekeep vulnerability | trauma-informed perspectives
**symbolic items**
crowdsourced memory collages | algorithmically recommended gifts | biodegradable offerings | ancestral totems
heirloom recipe recreations | crowdsourced poetry anthologies | mindfulness retreat vouchers | digital altars
**verbs & actions**
interrogate | deconstruct | commodify | ritualize | fetishize | transgress
perpetuate | decolonize | therapize | monetize | sanctify | renegotiate
**academic concepts**
affective economies | maternal epistemology | care ethics | sentimental colonialism | emotional geographies
biopolitical governance | kinship pluralism | moral sentimentalism | necropolitical motherhood | affect theory
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