intellectual humility by acknowledging the limitations in her knowledge.

what we think and do impacts others—all others (both human and nonhuman others), no matter how different or distant they might be.

Differences are not, in themselves, divisive. Rather, it's our limited definitions of difference-as-deviation, coupled with our refusal to openly acknowledge, examine, and discuss our differences that divides

Because any slippage—any willingness to consider alternative perspectives—seems to weaken our position and expose us to attack, we refuse to seriously consider the limitations in our current perspectives.

(She doesn't presume to know our politics; she waits to hear us articulate our politics in our own words, on our own terms—whatever those terms might be.)

“[t]he knowledge that we are in symbiotic relationship to all that exists and co-creators of ideologies—attitudes, beliefs, and cultural values, motivates us to act collaboratively”

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

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

In my epistemology, openness to change is one of the primary ways that new knowledge is created.