Cat and I had an interesting discussion today about the current tendency of social marginalisation, gatekeeping in communities and the trend of microlabeling vs. the counter-culture of inclusivity.
I arrived to the realisation that those of us who find their experience somehow unreliable are way more prone to thinking in inclusive terms than those who take their experience for granted.
If you are reminded daily that your working memory is unreliable, if your beliefs or the way you experience the world around you changes all the time, if you have a fluctuating sense of gender/sexual/personal identity, you're automatically more likely to accept people whose perception differs from yours.
Our otherness creates an extra layer of alienation even within our respective communities, because we can never rely on the stability of our own experience so the best we can do is to roll with it minute by minute and hope that at the end of the day we still belong.
I celebrate a culture in which belonging to a community does not necessitate a unified experience, because while we come in all shapes and shades, at the end of the day we all share the experience of being human and or humanity is what brings us to kindness towards each other regardless our individual differences.
