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.
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Elysia marginata
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Up Next
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Couture Critiques
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Ep 05 —
Degrees of Disgust
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Ep 04 —
Le Suicide
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Ep 03 —
Paul B. Preciado
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Eulogy for a Black Mass
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Ep 04 —
Southern Gothic
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Ep 02 —
Sianne Ngai
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Shakedown Directors Commentary
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Ep 01 —
Queer Architecture with Andres Jaque
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Ep 01 —
Zahira Kelly and The Politics of the Internet
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Unstoppable Feat: The Dances of Ed Mock
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Ep 01 —
I Don't Know Her
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Ep 02 —
A New Face in Hell
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Ep 03 —
Unholy Matrimony
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Ep 04 —
Martha Rosler Reads Vogue
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The Venus Monologues
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Ep 01 —
Casey and her Mom
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Ep 01 —
We Need To Invent A Different Kind Of Love: Michael Hardt
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Ep 04 —
Dust
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Ep 03 —
Jayne and Her Mom
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Ep 02 —
Casey and Her Unborn Daughter
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Ep 01 —
Everyone is a Worker
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Ep 01 —
Ylang Ylang
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Ep 02 —
Tyler
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Ep 02 —
From Courbet to the Kardashians with Jacolby Satterwhite
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Ep 03 —
Feminism with Christen Clifford
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