Thinking outside boxes when thinking about identity

Thinking outside boxes when thinking about identity

It can feel hard to keep track of all the new terms in the public eye on the topic of race in America. My information on this topic has always come in a messy, unsubstantial word salad made of “affirmative action,” “DEI” and “critical race theory.” Yet, in my personal life, race and racial identity doesn’t often touch me in the form of politicized ideas like these, and I doubt it does for many other people, either. What impacts me more on a dail…