Do you need a crisis to have an identity or is that script a Western and middle-class one?

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Goffman's spoiled identity is about information management: what to disclose to whom and when Intersectionality began as a legal argument about compound disadvantage and became a word for having several identities Personality tests give a workplace a shared language for describing people and not for changing them Some identities can be changed with paperwork and some cannot be changed at all and that difference is not about choice An identity that only exists in one setting disappears when you move cities and nobody warns you Being put in a category and claiming an identity are two different acts that share one word Identity politics means one thing to organizers and something accusatory when a critic says it Some identities can be set aside in one room and are unavoidable in the next which is what passing and code-switching are about Institutions count identities and fund them and audit them and that shifts which identities people claim Identity foreclosure means taking the identity you were handed without ever testing whether it fits