Month: July 2024
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Mythical creatures: disbelieving the celebration of difference.
Someone who I respect and admire recently said to me “we haven’t worked together, but I’ve heard about you.” My immediate reaction was “oh god, why?!” I didn’t stop to think that this might be actually be a positive thing. I spend so much energy feeling frustrated by the negative perceptions that tar or contradict…
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A brief reflection on subjectivity, authenticity and positionality.
How is it that the subject is the kind of being who can be exploited, who is, by virtue of its own formation, vulnerable to subjugation? Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence…