In July 2020, a report was released in which it documented that 2,306 Native American women and girls went missing in the U.S. within the past 40 years. Even further, roughly 1,800 of those who went missing were killed or completely vanished. The missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) is a transnational (severely affecting the […]
In his article “Nostalgia: The Abdication of Memory,” Christopher Lasch writes, “Strictly speaking, nostalgia does not entail the exercise of memory at all, since the past it idealizes stands outside of time, frozen in unchanging perfection,” (83). In other words, there is a difference between saying “I remember that” versus “I wish I could go […]
We all experience nostalgia, but at what point does it become dangerous?
Today, as I was scrolling through TikTok, I came across this video that perfectly complements my interest in nostalgia marketing, and I want to share it.
<p value="<amp-fit-text layout="fixed-height" min-font-size="6" max-font-size="72" height="80">Nostalgia is a complex emotion that cannot be contained to one simple definition. Rather, nostalgia spans across a multitude of definitions of which it is characterized by how it can be incited and how it can effect an individual and/or an entire community. Svetlana Boym’s The Future of Nostalgia, highlights […]
Inky Impressions 