Being put in a category and claiming an identity are two different acts that share one word

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Some identities can be changed with paperwork and some cannot be changed at all and that difference is not about choice Intersectionality began as a legal argument about compound disadvantage and became a word for having several identities An identity that only exists in one setting disappears when you move cities and nobody warns you Is a stable self-concept an achievement or just a set of habits other people can predict? Do you need a crisis to have an identity or is that script a Western and middle-class one? Goffman's spoiled identity is about information management: what to disclose to whom and when Roles are the easiest item to add to a list of the self and the hardest to remove 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