Sublime

In a modern society, who is allowed to speak with authority is a political act.

Drawing on what ethnographers have called thick description, I finally found a label as complex as my way of thinking.

Saying why it matters is one of those sticky things about my work.

Being too much of one thing and not enough of another had been a recurring theme in my life.

When oppressed people become complicit in their oppression, joining the dominant class in their ideas about what we are, it is symbolic violence.

When a woman must consume the tastes of her social position to keep it, but cannot control the tastes that define said position, she is suspended in a state of being negged.

We do not share much in the U.S. culture of individualism except our delusions about meritocracy.

More often than not the hierarchy of diffuse status characteristics overpowers any status characteristics that we earn.