“ What kinds of identities are we forced to adopt and police when we engage in state-centered politics? What acts of passing are required to gain state protection? What are the problems and pitfalls of passing (strategic or not) as a kind of politics? And, finally, what passes as politics in an era when incarceration and/or normalization are increasingly represented as the only solution to social problems? ”

Priya Kandaswamy, “Innocent Victims and Brave New Laws” from Nobody Passes (via youarenotyou)

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