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the past few days i've been thinking and writing about identity/ies, oppression(s) and privilege(s) and how these all intersect and sometimes conflict, and how nothing is fixed or static but rather fluid and constantly in flux and shaped by power and discourse and the like. and it's all swirling around in my head and starting to all blur so that i
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I'm currently learning in sociology how none of my ideas or beliefs are, independently, my own... but how i am only an individual due to the unique CONGLOMERATION of ideas/beliefs that i hold, whereas the ideas/beliefs themselves are not unique... I know I would rather have this perspective than be in a state of ignorant stasis (breeding "reptiles of the mind" etc;) but one is hard pressed to know what one does with this information (being aware of my non-unique-ness, or being aware of your privileges and social location - or lack thereof)...
god, it took me, like, 6 tries to properly spell "privileges", geez.
anyway, I just wanted to say, don't fuss too much over utilizing your knowledge for the power of good... patience grasshopper.
wow, iris put it a lot more succinctly, "don't be too hard on yourself"!!
I hope you are well, or, well-er than when you left for Whitby.
You were missed at Rick's house last night, I gave Cam and the crew your love.
There's leftover spaghetti and meatballs in the fridge :)
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