#iamkiam

people are dying all over the world from fascist regimes. violence has become so normalized that we've become desensitized to the sight of war, hunger, suffering. we are inundated with so much imagery that they all start to lose meaning. put a photo of a dead child beside a photo of a cat and we'll quickly turn to the cat. we've become a state of surveillance, and we willingly participate, tagging ourselves at parties and restaurants, all in an effort to say "look! I exist!"

I'm rethinking my personal approach to identity politics. While integral to being and creating a sense of self-identity, self-worth, and power to pull one's self out of oppression, I'm deciding to shift my focus into collective identity, collective oppressions. it is we humans that built these systems to enslave ourselves, and it is we humans who must dismantle them.

and lest anyone think I think I'm above it all, I'm typing this sitting comfortably in my room in the city, away from bombings. I'm not wearing clothes because I feel like it, not because I don't have any or can't afford it, or that I'm being sexualized and objectified outside of my control. I haven't eaten all day because I've barely been outside my room, not because I can't afford to eat. I am so privileged to even be typing this on a MacBook Pro. Like you, I'm guilty too. I often feel like I'm not doing enough. I realize the futility and the irony in Facebook activism, using a tool that connects and separates us to point out how we are separated to connect us. But it's only a tool, as most things are.

So what do I do? What do you do? What do we do?

THE FIRE HAS STARTED!

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how would you prefer people react in this day and age given the mode of communications and short attention span?

iamkiam replied to your post: Best tumblr blogs of 2012.

Thank you, I feel honored! And look, more new awesome blogs to follow! Happy New Year, dear.