Identity labels like “woman”, “Black,” “mother,” and “evangelical” are pervasive in both political and personal life, and in both formal and informal classification and communication. They are also widely thought to undermine agency by essentializing groups, flattening individual distinctiveness, and enforcing discrimination. While we take these worries to be well-founded, we argue that they result from a particular practice of using labels to rigidly label others. We identify an alternative practice of playful self-labelling, and argue that it can function as a tool for combating oppression by expressing and enhancing individual and collective agency.

中文翻译：

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玩弄标签：身份术语作为构建代理的工具


“女性”、“黑人”、“母亲”和“福音派”等身份标签在政治和个人生活以及正式和非正式的分类和交流中普遍存在。人们还普遍认为，它们通过本质化群体、扁平化个人独特性和强化歧视来破坏机构。虽然我们认为这些担忧是有根据的，但我们认为它们是由于使用标签来严格标记他人的特定做法造成的。我们确定了一种有趣的自我标签的替代做法，并认为它可以通过表达和增强个人和集体能动性来作为对抗压迫的工具。