#Identity

#growingupuglythis won't just be about glowing up, this is a talk about gender, beauty standards and my experience with it when I was a teenager I had the lowest self
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I am from Anioma and i am not an Igbo man. Singer Simi, Waje and Omawunmi are not Yoruba too. Dont force me into your clan because i speak your
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Sometimes the enemy of your enemy IS your friend. Even if only to defeat a monolith. It seems to me, that for the furtherance of Conservatism, “Conservative Inc.” must be
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People who think identity politics defines “the left” are only aware of “the left” as the bourgeois lifestyle of “radical chic” & not as the serious methodological understanding of the
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Growing up, all the historical figures that I loved to read about had complicated relationships with gender. Joan of Arc was a favorite of mine; a teenage peasant who wore
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Nobody was screaming identity politics when white evangelicals demanded Trump put one of their own on the ticket to test his loyalty. Why is it a problem when Black women
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Just saw a guy all decked out in too-cool-for-school aviators and ripped jeans try and vault the 3ft wall around Burley Park and wipeout spectacularly. Absolutely made my week -
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In Nordic Sounds, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough looks at the region’s history, culture & identity through its music. Tonight (1/3): the influence of landscape, with by Sibelius, Jan Garbarek, @Bjork
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How Hamilton Made Me Understand Diet Culture -[a thread] Okay, hear me out. I’m going to be brutally honest about some problematic feelings I’ve had. It’s not going to be
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Today I am thinking about my relationship as an afab non-binary person to “women-only” spaces. Since coming out, changing my name to something more masculine, and describing myself as transmasc,
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Here comes that promised tweet thread.So what is non-binary and what does being non-binary mean?(1/?) First of all, non-binary is a vast umbrella term for anyone who does not fit
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Half baked reflections: In order to follow Jesus as a Gentiles we have to move toward Israel. We have to read Israel’s stories, central characters, songs, prayers, traditions, conflicts, hopes,
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"not all trans girls ... want to wear frilly pink dresses or play with dolls. We ... see plenty of trans kids violating these stereotypes, just as we see cis
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Yes, there is a mess here. I think this is where the biggest divide between theory & activism occurs. I can explain why I think this happens.https://twitter.com/jenniferkrhn/status/1309830168215654403 Queer theory is
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I have a feeling this will feel relevant for all of us working on “now what?” questions given... *everything* (gesturing broadly) - Jeffrey Swofford is sharing ways to keep the
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Are any of these good enough reasons to reject Scottish independence? #indyref2"British" feels like a part of their identity and having family who are from or have grew up in
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