When epistemologists turn their attention to the problem of remedying epistemic injustice and wrongdoing, they typically pursue forward-looking strategies. Such strategies are designed to reduce the number of new wrongs committed in the future, and aim to bring epistemic practice closer to an ideal state. In contrast, I will discuss a fresh, backward-looking design for avoiding epistemic wrongdoing and restoring epistemic agency, whose purpose is not to bring epistemic practice closer to an ideal state, but rather seeks to improve or mitigate the non-ideal epistemic environment by redressing and forgiving epistemic wrongdoing that has occurred in the past. Such a backward-looking strategy is explicitly focused on the victim's past suffering and its epistemic redress and thus, I argue, is more appropriate for remedying inclusionary forms of epistemic injustice and wrongdoing such as epistemic exploitation (Berenstain 2016), epistemic appropriation (Davis 2018), “appreciative” silencing (Tobbi 2022) and hermeneutical excess (Dular 2023).