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"We know it’s a method of persecution, because documents have been historically taken from people to disempower them."
— Tucker Lieberman in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/allow-people-keep-id-cards-26e9ee7e5152?sk=c1a6713a0bf850ee2f74518ea9f696f4
"Living abroad, I realized that a light accent, a gesture, a choice of clothing would be a source of comments. Not in a mean way, in an observational way. My choices were nonetheless a label, a mark of nonconformity with the society I lived in."
— Sophia in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/living-abroad-american-identity-bbea1458c23d
"...one pressing issue facing so many workplaces is the Sisyphean task of changing organizational systems and culture."
— Dr. Janice Gassam Asare, interviewed by Tucker Lieberman in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/we-each-have-role-resistance-e4efec7316bd?sk=f6eb036b0ffd59b240e2af69a1b9266e
"...my wife inevitably says, 'You look like you’re upset, can you please smile?' She wants to preserve a happy moment, something we can return to years later and say, what a happy time that was."
— Danil Volodarsky in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/struggle-smile-command-family-photos-de12160185e5
"As a closeted transgender woman, I keep *most* of my rainbows on the inside. I can put my hood up and add an extra layer of obfuscation to avoid scrutiny."
— Rachel Addison in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/liminal-spaces-midnight-unicorns-meet-c2030b286908?sk=68e519435d325e1f8f5a17883ac01e85
"For me, the binary represents division — a life split by systems that include by excluding. I want wholeness, community, fellowship, but I’m met with ostracism in both straight and queer spaces. I no longer bend to conform."
— Grace de Oliveira in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/the-limits-of-allyship-d81fda0e5243
"...the terror I felt when I started helping people with Crohn’s disease wasn’t mine alone. It was inherited. Cellular. Ancient."
— Saravarotto in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/what-if-we-have-been-judged-and-persecuted-for-being-who-we-truly-are-feeling-the-truth-even-8c5f76ad8d0d
"it feels like I am sinking in quicksand, struggling, flailing about causing liquification, the wet sucking grip pulling me down further. This is my dark reflection, my anti-self that emerges into the spotlight as my positive identity recedes. Yin and yang. I don’t wish this part of me away because it is me/I and it challenges me to be more."
— Kaleb Brownlow in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/loneliness-me-myself-and-i-ec0bfcbf495d?sk=4cadb05f737c5344d798de651d101cbf
"Trans people often have trouble imagining their future before they come to terms with their identity. It’s something that I have heard again and again, and I always had a similar experience. For me, the future was a nebulous thing, vague and unreal."
— EvieGold in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/something-worth-dying-for-1426a0747860
"The present moment makes me feel alive, free, and fully myself. I make wiser choices. I am flexible, lighter, genuinely joyful, not performatively joyful. The real kind."
— Saravarotto in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/separate-me-and-my-actions-from-the-outcome-0abbee4c4830
"If you are using AI repeatedly for your imagery, you sow the seeds of reasonable doubt in my mind that you are using it for your words."
— Rachel Addison in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/human-writers-stop-using-ai-art-845ca44eaed7?sk=ee4cbdd7e32f78128bb9f300a6e269d5
"Even if you’re more fascinated with the gaps and silences between the stories, still it’s the story-matrix that gives shape to the gaps and silences."
— Tucker Lieberman in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/we-always-have-stories-robots-trans-485a57ab60db?sk=17651a8368b81a46bade55eb5863f9fa
"As I prepare to rearrange my wardrobe for the warmer months ahead I’m also faced with another seasonal transition, one I reenact every year when jeans and boots give way to skirts and tank tops."
— Grace de Oliveira in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/seasonal-detransitioning-9ecc8176ce53?sk=3d96b60d531e9e5487ca56e8c24c2416
"I am never made more aware of my gender — by which I mean my sense of feeling either more masculine or more feminine at any given moment — than when I’m in the presence of others who are intent on determining my gender for me."
— Grace de Oliveira in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/company-men-aware-gender-49da41356bca?sk=84171fe9148b5fa8b995b10defef847b
"We all wanted to bend the ball like Roberto Carlos. The kick was so notable, a mathematician got involved and explained the laws of motion behind it on TV and in the newspapers."
— Rachel Addison in Identity Current
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https://medium.com/the-identity-current/spinning-balls-roberto-carlos-magnus-effect-7d2ac6c52029?sk=2af4da7190960f28fbdf5efa5d8775a1
New word just dropped!
"Babygrip": noticing something in a simplistically reactive way, while maintaining an immature or incomplete perception of it, and therefore not fully encountering it and having no power over it or related to it. An atrophy of the attention.
#attention #mindfulness #communication #literacy #thinking
Jack McNamara on #Medium:
https://medium.com/never-stop-writing/something-crucial-has-died-in-us-0912fed5e5e7?sk=v2%2F333afb4e-4055-4961-b647-20ae46a95688
