Epistemicide Part 3: Who Got Erased And How to Recover What Was Lost
What happens when stories, songs, and structures are rewritten or erased altogether? In this final part of our Epistemicide series, we trace the loss of knowledge across the arts, architecture, music, literature, and language. But this isn’t just about mourning the erased. It’s about recovering what was lost, resisting with curiosity, and building a culture of memory and imagination. From banned books to folk art to fast food buildings, nothing is too niche, too “lowbrow.” And it's never too late to learn or to remember.
Rebellion doesn’t have to roar. It can whisper, question, or simply refuse. Meet the young people who stood up for what’s right—and the adults who chose courage and stood beside them. Learning is liberation. Defiance can be kind.
We’re taught to believe knowledge builds upward, layer by layer, always advancing to a pinnacle. Could this towering cathedral of “universal” knowledge have been built on the ruins of erased worlds? In this first post of our four-part Epistemicide series, we dig into the deliberate destruction of diverse knowledge systems, from Mayan codices to women’s oral histories, and we ask: Who gets to be a knower? And who gets forgotten? Why and what can we do?
Epistemicide Part 3: Who Got Erased And How to Recover What Was Lost
What happens when stories, songs, and structures are rewritten or erased altogether? In this final part of our Epistemicide series, we trace the loss of knowledge across the arts, architecture, music, literature, and language. But this isn’t just about mourning the erased. It’s about recovering what was lost, resisting with curiosity, and building a culture of memory and imagination. From banned books to folk art to fast food buildings, nothing is too niche, too “lowbrow.” And it's never too late to learn or to remember.
We’re taught to believe knowledge builds upward, layer by layer, always advancing to a pinnacle. Could this towering cathedral of “universal” knowledge have been built on the ruins of erased worlds? In this first post of our four-part Epistemicide series, we dig into the deliberate destruction of diverse knowledge systems, from Mayan codices to women’s oral histories, and we ask: Who gets to be a knower? And who gets forgotten? Why and what can we do?
Rebellion doesn’t have to roar. It can whisper, question, or simply refuse. Meet the young people who stood up for what’s right—and the adults who chose courage and stood beside them. Learning is liberation. Defiance can be kind.
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