Lived Experience
Overthink
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The Status of Identity Categories in Relation to Lived Experience
There are all kinds of aspects of myself that just will not fit into any concatenation of categories, right? There is just yet my personality, which may not be tied to any of those categories or interpretable through them. And I think this is one of the insights of intersectionality is that actually breaking up those different identity categories is impossible to do. So in a certain sense, your lived experience is only ever going to be your lived experience as you and not strictly speaking as like a queer Mexican immigrant or me as like a white woman.
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