"Disengagement with politics simply celebrates a commodification of sex and gender, without
seeking to challenge institutionalized power. Activists working for the liberation of people of color, women, and sexual minorities must assess the political costs of excluding material contextualization from our analyses. By privatizing the sexual in our own theory and politics, we have reduced sexuality to a matter of style, and redefined political resistance in terms of lifestyle, fashion, and personal transformation."
" In short, what was once 'the personal is political' has become 'the political only need to be personal.' By creating a climate in which self-transformation is equated with social-transformation, the new identity politics has valorized a politics of lifestyle, a personal politics that is centered on who we are - how we dress or get off - that fails to engage with institutionalized systems of domination"
-elisa glick-feminist review-spring 2000
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