Guy Gavriel Kay

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.

Canadian Author

Helen Oyeyemi

I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.' I just want to find out about all the different lives a woman can live. But my feminism has never been against men. It's not erasure; it's just they're not the focus. In real life, they're quite nice.

British Novelist

Tess Holliday

The real issue that I have is the erasure people are trying to do with my very valid feelings in regard to how plus-size and fat people are treated in fashion. The way that people just kind of overlook us and pretend that, you know, we don't have style, that we aren't trendy or fashionable. It's dehumanizing.

American Model

Anthony Doerr

Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching my grandmother lose her memories is, you know, we are all facing erasure eventually.

American Writer

Kathleen Hanna

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

American Musician

Jesmyn Ward

I thought about all those people whose suffering had been erased, and I thought, 'Why can't they speak? Why can't I undo some of that erasure?

American Novelist

Stacey D'Erasmo

There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamount to erasure.

Tananarive Due

I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.

American Author

Natasha Trethewey

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

American Poet

DeRay Mckesson

The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.

American Activist

Used when talking about correcting mistakes, often in written work.

Correction Context

Emphasizes the action of intentionally taking something away or off, like information or data.

Removal Action

Implies a deliberate action rather than an accidental one.

Intentionality

Refers to the active or passive process of being forgotten, especially culturally.

Forgetting Process

Often paired with discussions on culture or history, signifying loss or diminishment.

Cultural Loss

Indicates the loss or omission of historical facts or figures from records or discourse.

Historical Impact

Highlights the importance of erasure to protect private information on digital devices.

Data Security

Commonly used for cleaning storage devices by removing unnecessary data.

Tech Cleanup

Refers to the trace or mark left after something on paper has been erased.

Physical Mark

Shows evidence of changes or corrections on a physical document.

Revision Evidence

 And it really caused me some deep sadness, because I realized how many more stories are -- I mean, we're missing so many, and of course, not everybody is going to be famous and not everyone’s going to have a book written about them. But it's very, very unique, this erasure of Black women's contributions. It is very intentional.

The Critical Role of...

 "Poor people don't hate gentrification. They just hate that they rarely get to hang around long enough to enjoy its benefits." Why is it that we treat culture erasure and economic displacement as inevitable? We could approach development with an acknowledgment of past injustices --

What if gentrification...

 our realities may differ, but our rights don't. The Lagos state government, like far too many on our continent, pays lip service to ideas of inclusion, while acting as though progress can only be achieved by the erasure, exploitation and even elimination of groups

Who belongs in a city? PIPE...

 critical is to address the gaping racial wealth gap of black white wealth differential and to do that it would require somewhere in the vicinity of ten to twelve trillion dollars at the low end estimate of what would be required for for erasure of that of that

A blueprint for...

 Frederick Douglass and his abolitionist contemporaries feared this erasure of slavery from the history of the Civil War could contribute to the government’s failure to protect the rights of Black Americans— a fear that has repeatedly been proven valid.

Debunking the myth of...

 Black people will not be erased from the creation, the history and the innovation of twerking. Thank you. From TikTok trends to songs and humor, we see so much erasure of what Black people have created, so I want to do everything in my power

Lizzo: The Black history...

 and discover as much as I possibly can and exposing it within my own work. But at the same time, I'm thinking about this idea of erasure, and what's happening now that most of our information is intangible, and this idea of loss,

Brian Dettmer: Old books...

 has been sentenced for war crimes. Historical erasure exists in the US as well, where these and other stories of US intervention in Central America are rarely taught in public schools. But the victims refuse to be forgotten.

The rebel radio that...

 This is not underrepresentation. This is erasure, and I call this the epidemic of invisibility. Now, when we move from prevalence to protagonist, the story is still problematic.

The data behind...

 what you have seen with your own eyes and you know to be true being denied an experience that you have had and you know is real for me the erasure of the

Erasure