Maybe the performance of difference need not involve ‘camping’!

This WordPress prompt ought to have been a gift to me – with a long history in LGBTQI+ politics, the word ‘camp’ has always had a history to reclaim. But to say ‘word’ in description of the term ‘camp’ here is not enough. I got stopped in my tracks from answering this question as I … More Maybe the performance of difference need not involve ‘camping’!

To favour walking in another person’s shoes, or mocassins (or whatever) needn’t be in order to empathise with them.

The phrase ‘walk a mile in another person’s’s shoes is usually interpreted as a call to empathy – an admonition asking you to feel pinching you as they do them, ”the experiences, challenges, thought processes’ of the person’ before you judge them. White cultures often appropriate the wisdom of other cultures but there is no … More To favour walking in another person’s shoes, or mocassins (or whatever) needn’t be in order to empathise with them.