My modest proposal is that we jettison “identity”, and move towards articulating and practicing a politics of multiplicity, indeterminacy, and singular-plural being. I focus here on the issue of gender, specifically on the (mis)use of gender pronouns, and offer a new ontological footing for a politics of “strategic obfuscation” which aims to disrupt hegemonic gender and sexual taxonomies. Simply, this essay calls for a collective adoption of “them” pronouns in a post-genderist, post-identitarian spirit of deprivileging sameness and interpersonal difference….
Glitch the Matrix: the politics and poetics of becoming “they”
