For those of us teaching English in a small liberal arts college, two subjects prompt anxiety: Identity and the Internet. Identity preoccupies most everyone, especially those who enthusiastically embrace both Identity and its smarter younger sibling, Intersectional Identity. The comic-book version of what’s going on in the academy might lead you to believe that there are exactly two sides in the fight: the decriers of “identity politics” and those who live for it. But it is not so. Depending on the particular campus, there might be many groups to which students or faculty might say they belong and whose identity tags they embrace, but there are even more groups to which one might be
“Hygge. It is the opposite of having someone call you “an enabler of rape culture” because you assigned Ovid’s Metamorphoses”