Identity Mapping
Introduction: When I glance at my identity map, it is clear that I am privileged. Upon closer inspection, I realize how much of that privilege I use to live my life everyday and how it shapes me as a person. The majority of my identity is very fixed, which tells me that I have the privilege of stability. The ways in which my identity has changed has been the result of my privilege and society catering to certain qualities I possess. Prior to this map, when asked about my identity, I would have described myself as a middle-class, white woman. When my identity is mapped in more detail, it shows how that basic description is possible. For instance, I am middle-class because I had access to a quality education up to and including college due to the fact that I was a white citizen in the western world. What surprised me about this mapping was that many of the ways that I am personally oppressed are not extreme because I fall into a...