“Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.” IfsDoeSaidCharacterTurnsSexResultsBehindsIdentityExpressionConsequenceGenderDistinctionConstructsBeing ThereGender IdentitySex And Gender Author:Judith Butler
“Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.” ImportantSelfHelpingEmotionStruggleOur LivesIdentityExpressionMusic IsPopsReleaseClichePop MusicSelf ExpressionSoundtracks Author:Sarah Churchwell
“Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.” FirstsLooksSoulSelfReasonBlackRealizingWhiteStruggleDoubtIdentityPositionStudentsCollegeExpressionPrideEvidenceHatredMirrorsConfusionDamageNo ReasonExaminationIncompleteSelf HatredPathologyPsychBlack Pride Author:Barack Obama
“We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.” HumansSelfCultureHuman BeingsConsciousnessWrittenIdentityPlanetsExpressionBirthToolsCaringIntellectSexualityRecognitionDimensionsPsychedelicSelf ExpressionPsychedelic ExperienceNational Identity Author:Terence McKenna
“I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.” ThinkingArtFashionIdentityExpressionYou ChooseExpress Yourself Author:Erin Heatherton
“The gospel has brought a new identity in Christ that then allows our work to no longer be the source of our identity but the rightful expression of it.” ChristIdentityExpressionSource Author:David Kim
“[Pope Francis] has reminded us that the way we live our lives is the most important expression of our Catholic identity.” WayImportantLife IsOur LivesIdentityExpressionCatholicPope Author:John I. Jenkins
“We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.” HumansMovingIdentityExpressionBoxesFeminineMasculineContinuumBinary Author:Gloria Steinem
“A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.” KidsGirlBoysIdentityExpressionExpectationsGenderNormMasculineBullied Author:Dan Savage