Facsimile

The risks of identification as a means of realising the self are enormous. When you are inevitably disgusted with the options, there’s not much left to hang onto. Personally I blame the marketing industry for placing the facsimile where the soul of the consumer probably could be.

“That’s why I am unwilling to oblige feminist fantasies of boundless solidarity in which women of all races and classes walk proudly into booths to vote to further Clinton’s place in history. I am equally unwilling to begrudgingly vote for her under the same identity politics that lead me to punch a ballot for Obama. I’m done being manipulated into choosing candidates who will at most slow the inevitable bleed out that is my existence as a poor black woman. No, #Imnotwithher.”