Do We Need to Categorise Ourselves with Labels? (podcast)

I provide a whistle-stop tour on our poor categorisation skills, how complicated the whole business can get, and share some ideas about perhaps scrapping it all together!

Hank Green’s video on Sexuality that I mentioned here

Your identity will never be something you could write out on a sheet of paper, listing with words and labels who you are, because you will always be so much more than that.

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Additional notes about the episode (afterthought!)

Unless you want to have sex with someone, what does this sexual identity matter, really?The colour of someone’s skin doesn’t tell us anything about them as a person, but their heritage might and again, it might not!List of sexual orientations Key takeaway: Be okay with answering “I’m not sure about that, I think I’m a lot of things” and allowing yourself not to be minimised into a neat box.

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