2025-03-12
13 分钟This is the Memory palace.
I'm Nate DiMeo.
A brief note.
After learning
that the National Park Service has removed references to transgender people
from the official webpage of the Stonewall National Monument in New York,
I am reading this aloud on 10th March, 2025.
The time stamp is important, I think, so that you listening to it, whenever you are listening to it,
can do your best to contextualize or pinpoint or maybe recover the meaning of these words,
how they were first spoken.
Though as I read them now, mere days after I first started to write them,
I can feel that that meaning has shifted somehow, already,
has been changed by circumstances that seem to be changing so quickly these days
in this particular historical moment,
in ways that might not make sense to someone listening to this in the future.
And if you are listening in the future, some years from now, just trust me,
time feels strange right now somehow, at least here in the United States.
And I suppose I'm saying all this in this odd way, probably off putting way,
because I want you to know that language changes the words we use,
how those words get used, by whom and to what ends, which I assume you know.