Lenguas Loc@s Writing Prompt!

Memory: talk about the nature of memory and how it plays a role in your experiences. You can personify it if you want to.

Possible questions:

- What are the things we forget?

- What are the things we can’t forget no matter how hard we try?

- What are the things we forget that we should remember?

- What kinds of things get remembered?

- What is lost to history and what is brought to the forefront?

- How does memory fail us?

- If people deny our memories/ experiences, what does that mean?

- How is memory different than truth?

Here are three poems that touch on memory for inspiration!

CW: Racial violence

CW: childhood assault, child death

CW: Alzheimer's