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Posted on 13 August, 20131 November, 2019

When the Labels Don’t Fit

Square peg round holeDiscourse sorts our world, as Craig Martin illustrated nicely in a post last week. Identity labels are an aspect of discourse, but they also operate in another way, beyond organizing people. Labels also push people to conform by presenting a normative sense of who they are/should be. Continue reading “When the Labels Don’t Fit”

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