This essay critiques how university marketing, rankings, and promotional narratives may perpetuate epistemic violence by silencing plural knowledges, urging institutions to recognise their fiduciary epistemic duties and adopt inclusive practices.

A multimodal poetic thesis explicitly critiquing academic gatekeeping and epistemic domestication. Through poetry, multilingualism, and visual epistemology, it illustrates how traditional academic structures actively constrain knowledge into sanctioned forms.

In this paper, I critically examine institutional epistemic gatekeepers—including academic platforms such as PhilPapers, JSTOR, major publishers, and academic repositories—as fiduciaries entrusted with safeguarding epistemic diversity, justice, and integrity.