i am me before i am anything else - by sundus

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are you an automaton? if so, how would you even know it? (escaping from freedom, part II)

When it comes to the expectation of subject matter in relation to identity, I think so much of it is pervasive, in that you are expected to write a certain way based on how you look. And I think this is true of all kinds of people, from straight, white men to someone who looks like myself—there’s an expectation of what one should be concerned with. Some have a wider breadth of expectation, impossibility, than others. I always insist on my agency as a thinker. I have the right to read what I like to read. I think that is actually more radical: to insist that because I have my own mind, I…

i am me before i am anything else - by sundus

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