This is an argument against identity politics, but it is not an argument against feminism, or queer liberation, or anti-racism work. It is instead an argument that the oppressions usually combated through identity politics ? a strategy based on the affirmation of Identity ? could be better fought through its abandonment, or in the least through a radical destabilisation of existing Identities. ---- I believe that Identity ? always mythical and invented ? is in itself oppressive, and that a politics founded upon one or another particular Identity is a dangerous strategy. These dangers are numerous, and include: the creation and policing of arbitrary boundaries of Identity, rigorous ...

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