#identity

#identity

Perfect Victims is a polemic asserting the Palestinian right to self-defense. It's also a repudiation of the media's racist insistence that Palestinians must, above all else, consider the feelings of those carrying out their annihilation.

Mariya spends a significant portion of her days as this cartoon character, at once wholly real while being completely artificial. She is a professional performer, although her stage is virtual. Instead of a glimpse into a room or a home, her surroundings are fully drawn - she could be in a beach setting one day and an ornate office the next.

Didion's recollections focus less on Hearst and more on her own contradictory identity shaped by her California roots, showcasing her conflicted feelings about the place.

Growing up in Colombia and online has defined the way I create art, as my identity has been shaped by a country with both superficial and conservative values.

N.A.T.A.L.I.E. watches old footage of Riri and Natalie with a longing expression, realizing she is merely an approximation of a person, though a beautiful one.

I grew up dying to wear my older sister's clothes. She was nearly four years older than I was, with lush black hair to her waist, and her lashes the size of pond fronds.

Fire was once the most fundamental resource for human survival. Now in the twenty-first century, people are completely disconnected from fire's role in the natural world. Colonialism is at least partially responsible for this amnesia; Black and Indigenous peoples' fire practices have been continually erased.

In Superman II, Christopher Reeve's Clark gives up his powers to live as a human, showing Clark Kent as physically separate from Superman's body, highlighting a unique duality.

I wanted to eat an artichoke.

Strange Organs embraces complexity and asks: how can we break through our calcified skins, imagine new ways of being, and make home in ambiguity?

Birdsall claims that queer food is not a commodity, emphasizing that there is no single cuisine representing queerness, just as there's no simple definition of 'queer'.

I stumbled across Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The show may have been barely audible, but it hit me like a lightning bolt. I secretly yearned for a more alternative lifestyle.

The revelation that Murderbot has a past involving the mysterious murder of 57 miners raises significant questions about its identity and existence.

Instagram's 'With Friends' enhances social media intimacy but raises concerns about personal privacy and the pressure to curate an appealing online persona.

Alongside the parades, panels, and other moments of reflection, there's a significant mental and emotional load that's carried quietly from educating to representing, often without being asked.

"The people in front of me were just stepping on women... Lots of very poor, very old, very fragile... they were like human debris on the floor."

"My Iranian name is Shadi, which means 'happiness' in Persian. When I immigrated to North America, I felt the need to adopt an English name as well."

The body appears in my work as fragmented and in flux-gestures caught mid-transition, toes curled, hands hovering. These are bodies that do not settle into place.

"When we fall in love with a person, we fall in love with the copy of them, inexpertly done, that we carry around with us whenever they aren't there."

Wang’s designs illustrate stories of identity with deconstructed pieces and tailored corsets, building characters and rewriting fashion norms.

As an Australian-Iranian citizen, I feel caught between two countries and two identities, painfully aware that escalation serves no one and peace cannot be imposed through fear.

That's the thing about PLATTE - it's not about titles. It's about showing up. Being part of the room, even when you're not named.

"Coney's not just where the sideshow survived. It's where it evolved. There's a hierarchy in circus life, and at Coney Island, disabled performers - 'naturals,' as they call themselves - sit at the very top."

Are representation and resemblance their own mandate of heaven? Or, as Jordan Tannahill's Prince Faggot puts it, what would happen if, just a few steps down the line of inheritance, there were a guy who loved being a little bitch in bed?

Music, despite its aesthetic ridicule, can transcend genres and identities, creating unexpected connections and communities that embrace diversity in taste.

Your habits aren't just what you do. They're who you become. Every action is a vote for the type of person you want to be.

It felt more welcoming... We wanted it to feel like an expression that was really inviting for all types of creative.

In her book, Feng illustrates the complexities of identity in Xi's China, revealing how state narratives suppress individuality and foster a monolithic national identity.

"Does Dora the Explorer change her shirt?" It's her brand! But as the philosopher Heraclitus said, "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he is not the same man."

Dmitri admits that his shop is a front for a surveillance operation, reflecting the hostile reality of post-Soviet life, where commerce and control intertwine, reminiscent of past regimes.

The connection between craftsperson and wood is immediate. This is how I found my true identity as it mirrors my life's journey of self-discovery.