I’m fascinated by identity, and how it works, how it affects power in the world…so, this isn’t really a biography…it’s more just a casual first-person account, of lives, past, and present, existing in and around mine, as they have been told to me. Identity is probably not a collection of facts, but a force or process (see Stuart Hall “Ethnicity, Identity, and Difference.” In Radical America. Somerville [Massachusetts]: Alternative Education Project, 1991: 28-36). The facts on these pages edit themselves; I have tried to disorganize them, but something is always restored. Or maybe I have not really tried.
I suppose my reason for writing here is modestly empirical. A “process” of identity unfolds from speech, and from elsewhere. I am not holding the clarity or completeness of life facts to be any kind of priority.
As much as I can, I want to examine how the facts take hold of one another when continuity is channeled and challenged. (By way of this study, I also wouldn’t mind learning a thing or two about why I read so slowly.)