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ICMYI I wrote about the importance of being a citizen archivist. We've seen so much incredible art and writing from marginalized people, and we need to preserve it in the face of a huge, well-funded backlash. This is something concrete you personally can do! buttondown.email/charliejane/...
We Should All Be Archivistsbuttondown.email Lately, I keep obsessing about two seemingly opposing but interrelated trends: 1) The past decade has seen an incredible bounty of art and self-expression...
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When I think back to the founding mythology of the US in particular, I did not appreciate (when I was a school kid) how being in a marginal community is the thing that often keeps you out of situations where big important societal changing decisions are made.
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And of course, marginalized communities tend to suffer the most consequences from those decisions. This is, afaict, still a major blind spot today.