Emma Camp: “Our culture needs to discard the restrictive form of identity politics that turns individuals into totems for much larger groups, and creates a bizarre impetus for otherwise privileged young adults to yearn to be disadvantaged. The problems that many forms of identity politics seek to fix — racism, sexism, homophobia, among others — are real, pressing problems. However, making intersectional identity box-checking the foremost way that individuals perceive themselves will not solve them.”