loppear quoted Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell
The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. …
Classification schemes, as Bowker and Star note, "have the central task of providing access to the past" [and] classification practices also organize selective forgetting.
— Against Purity by Alexis Shotwell (Page 66)
Here talking about ACT UP but on a strong tack from the prior section's focus on colonial dispossession and indigenous memory.