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Identity is not the abstract quality we vaguely assume it to be: we determine our identity by placing it alongside and, increasingly, contrasting it with other possible identities.

Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society

I imagine there have been periods in my ancestry when gender was held very differently, maybe didn’t matter so much, or was less binary. And I imagine there will be a future with a multitude of widely known and understood genders. In this moment, I get to be part of the expansion of possible genders that can live and love safely on this planet.

adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)

Soft Divisions

Aashay Sanghvi aashay.substack.com

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Alice Wong • Resistance and Hope: Essays by Disabled People

The self is not unitary and separate from others; peopling occurs in the context of mutual-mental-modeling relationships, which continue to affect each person when he is alone.

ribbonfarm.com • The Essence of Peopling

The limited representation of DAO membership is problematic because important decisions about DAO governance, equity and operations can only take single-dimension token ownership as input, or else rely on manual human assessment.

Ben Dobbrick • The Otters go Soulbound

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Mandy Brown aworkinglibrary.com

An Interview With Emily Segal

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The most liberatory, evolved, boundary-breaking people I know hold identities that are marginalized in some way. And when that marginalization, that experience of being “othered” is focused on your ability to make family, then of course you create other models.