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I yam what I yam.

—Popeye

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I am what I am.
I am not what you think I am.

—James Baldwin

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I’m a mog, half man, half dog. I’m my own best friend.

—Spaceballs

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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

—Fr. Richard Rohr

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I am my own muse,
the subject I know best.

—Frida Kahlo

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You are your best thing.

—Toni Morrison

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Poem: Please Call Me By My True Names

Poem: Identity

Poem: Identity Politics

Poem: An Identity Crisis

Poem: Stripped Identity

Poem: "Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identity..."

Poem: Maybe my most important identity is being a son

Poem: A Woman Speaks

Poem: Phenomenal Woman

Poem: Still I Rise

Poem: Tenth Birthday

Poem: I am not i

IDENTITY POLITICS

Understanding whiteness

On white racial identity development

Waking up white

On intersectionality

Double consciousness

There’s not just one way to be Japanese

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I identify as a white, cis, hetero, able-bodied, HSP, secularly spiritual, transpersonally-inspired, queer-allied, pro-choice, antiracist, Enneagram 2, INFP/J American male psychotherapist, dharma artist, poet, musician, meditator-in-action, curator, stardust uncle, sibling, son, friend, partner, cat parent, & lover of the phenomenal world. I am a descendant of English, Welsh, French and Swiss-German settler colonialists.

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How do you identify?
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What are your identities?

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