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The #SocialCapital one supposedly gains from "playing identity cards" is entirely at the whim of the hegemony. It is, literally, a #TokenEconomy. And when one "cashes in" on this capital, they aren& #39;t cashing in on their race or their disability or their gender or sexuality.
They& #39;re capitalizing on their whiteness, or their ableness, or their normativity, or their " #respectability".
We are only able to "cash in" (ask for accountability from our peers) on what we have /in spite of/ our marginality.
We are only able to "cash in" (ask for accountability from our peers) on what we have /in spite of/ our marginality.
Whether or not those in power consent to make it appear as though they are centering our marginality over this exchange is entirely up to them. And in any case, the moment is resented by everyone else, as if they lost something while others made us a #spectacle.
More often it will be that we are black/brown/queer/crip "and yet" PRODUCTIVE and thus "worthy" of protection from the hegemony.
We& #39;re tired of hearing about how claiming our identities gets us "special snowflake points" when hiding, conforming, aquiescing, and making ourselves quiet is much more valued by the people who control our access to housing, food, health, learning, and career.
Sure. It& #39;s true that in some spaces, our identity markers get us some room. Some clout. Some authority. Some validity.
It& #39;s our responsibility to use that space to forge the revolution in service of us all.
It& #39;s a duty. It& #39;s a spirit tax. And it can lead to #ActivistBurnout
It& #39;s our responsibility to use that space to forge the revolution in service of us all.
It& #39;s a duty. It& #39;s a spirit tax. And it can lead to #ActivistBurnout
I don& #39;t even know why I& #39;m tweeting this.
I& #39;m just saying. This isn& #39;t easy.
It would be simpler to play the pretty wife. The able wife. The productive wife. But it would kill me.
It would be simpler to play the apolitical computer scientist. But it would kill me.
I& #39;m just saying. This isn& #39;t easy.
It would be simpler to play the pretty wife. The able wife. The productive wife. But it would kill me.
It would be simpler to play the apolitical computer scientist. But it would kill me.
Instead of dying in a closet, we choose to live, and rage, and even still die -
but in the sun, under the stars, in the open.
but in the sun, under the stars, in the open.
