kuttithevangu:

People wayyyyy over-apply the concept of cultural appropriation and it is frustrating… there are some things for which this model does not work and is actively counterproductive… please………. for instance it is not “appropriation” for people with similar but not SAME diagnoses to use the same vocabulary to describe their symptoms…. it is, in fact,

Useful

Soooooooo much.

One of the worst thing identity politics does is devide people into ever smaller labels and then limiting the language of that label like a treasure to sit on and protect, bssically treating the means to our collective liberation as property.