Saturday, 30 December 2017

#FBPE

"Identity politics" has become a buzzword for regressives. It probably won't shock you that I don't care about that. However, the impermanence of everything is a fact and energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed so all that is left is identity.

I am European to my roots. It is the hill I will metaphorically die on, surrounded by Brexit and America First - and acknowledging that I am, and always will be, a voluntary romantic migrant on stolen land (predominantly the Anishinaabe and Lakota peoples).

I usually say I'm proudly European. I don't know if that's the right word. There's no point being proud of a geographical accident but identities are also a bundle of experiences.