Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change

“not all theories of relationality are holistic on the model of a smooth organism. There are harmonious holisms but also fractious models of systematicity that allow for heterogeneity and even emergent novelty within.

identity is built from the self-enclosed individualism and the limited concepts of selfhood

But identity politics as imagined by women of color feminists was fundamentally critical of a unitary and reified notion of subject formation”

they use their differences to forge commonalities.

focus on differences can lead to insights about shared traits.

relies on relational epistemologies, nondual ways of thinking that destabilize the networks of classification restricting us to static notions of personal and collective identity.

Rather than simply enabling alliances across differences, transformational identity politics employs these complex differences (differences that are often shot through with shared traits) to transform identity itself.

transformational identity politics questions all such notions of self-enclosed, unified, stable identities.

based on a metaphysics and ontology of interconnectedness; takes multiple, open-ended forms; questions monolithic identity categories and static concepts of selfhood;