Label Free
It was an exercise I gave my queer theory class one day.
Let’s be intentional about trying not to label this week.
Labeling, I explained
creates expectations which affect our vision
and change how we see things.
We see people as the label
not necessarily as they really are.
When I see you as your label
then there are things I think I know about you,
because you are everything I believe about that label
and I miss everything about you that is new and exciting and
you do the same with me.
When we build relationships based on labels
we are in relationship with our expectations,
we are in a relationship with the stories we create,
and only partially with the person for who they truly are.
What if we lived without labels.
If we learned to care about each other
not as a sex or a gender
or as a race or an ethnicity
or a sexuality or
a class
or any other label
that carries with it a story.
Would you see me differently?
Would I see you differently?
Would we see each other a greater clarity
and truer expression of who we were created to be?
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