I was born white, female and american. No one asked me beforehand whether i wanted to tick those boxes - they are boxes. The color of my kin is an arbitrary accident, not a personal brand. For me, the boxes into which i was born have been finements i've struggled to get out of. And i would wish that liberation for everyone else. Identity politics urges us all instead to cling to the bars of our cages in locating advantage and disadvantage too. Ironically, the last thing the identity politics crowd wants to see is a truly equitable society. Absent bigotry, its activists would be lost.