To name your Self means to take radical responsibility for the words that follow “I am”. It means to define yourself an alchemic aligning of Lorde’s idea that to define yourself for yourself is to avoid consumption and annihilation. And Carroll’s idea that “when I use word it means only what I intend it to mean nothing more, nothing less.” It is to hold the idea that I can be many things at once and still, none of it absolutely, beyond that I am.
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