Primary definers frame problems, limiting all subsequent discussion.

Evidence

As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live. My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restrictions of externally imposed definition. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 512 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hegemony does not turn definer inputs into predictable outputs; Digital proliferation collapsed the primary-secondary definer boundary; Defining people by one identity aspect fragments and weakens them — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 512

Broader Connections

• Digital proliferation collapsed the primary-secondary definer boundary #complicates (0.82)
• Defining people by one identity aspect fragments and weakens them #exemplifies (0.75) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 512