Identity
To be human, in some fundamental way, is to attempt to know ourselves—and to come to know ourselves among others. Be it our parents, our communities, our enemies, or the very operations of our bodies, our ever shifting notions of who we are and where we belong are subject to a barrage of competing, conflicting, and reinforcing symbols and symptoms. Gender, race, class, nationality, biology, belief—that is, identity—limn a body that cannot be or belong apart from its being enmeshed in a world—self-same or social—that witnesses, ignores, bruises, consumes, steals, embraces, or denies who we are.