Carnival of Aces Round-Up: Identity

Thanks to everyone who participated in the January 2018 Carnival of Aces.  This month’s theme was “Identity”.  Here is the round-up of submissions:

• Lib wrote about how complex the question of identity is, and how little control we have over our identities in  “Identity and Control”.
• Isaac wrote about their relationship to various identity categories in “Label =/= identity”.
• Sara K. and I both wrote about labels and identities, and how they’re not the same thing.  Sara K. wrote about how she finds labels more useful than  “identity” in “Identity? What’s That?”.
• Conversely, I wrote about how inadequate I find labels in terms of describing my identity in  “Expecto Patronum: Seeking Identity in a World of Labels”.
• Perfect Number wrote about her ambiguous relationship with the queer community in Shanghai in “Finding My (Asexual, Straight, Married) Place in the Queer Community”.
• Coyote wrote about the relationship between being stone and being asexual in “Tapping at ‘Stone’: me & a stone (a)sexuality”.
• demiandproud wrote a poetical piece called “Sexually-liberated-modern-woman self versus demisexual self”.
• luvtheheaven wrote “Immutibility, aka the Parts of Myself That I Can Count On”.
• Elizabeth wrote “Identity vs. Labels, Culture, & Change”.
• Rotten Zucchinis wrote “‘Identity’ mini-series re: uniqueness and group membership”.
  • Part 1: “The all-encompassing unique self (which is situated & relational)”
  • Part 2: “Socially relevant aspects of self (sharing group membership)”

Next month’s carnival is being hosted by Hurricane Sophia and is about “Mental Health”.  Go check it out!