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Guest Post: Why Can't We Play With Ethnicity?

On the embattled category of ethno-fluidity

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Oct 13, 2025
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Stephen G. Adubato is a New York-based writer, a professor of philosophy, and author of the Cracks In Postmodernity Substack. I find his work consistently sharp and provocative. So I’m pleased to publish this guess essay by Stephen, exploring a question that often pops up in social-media slop discourse but rarely gets a more thoughtful treatment: why can you identify as …

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Stephen G. Adubato is a writer and professor of philosophy based in New York. He is also the curator of the Cracks in Postmodernity blog, podcast, and magazine. Follow him on Twitter @stephengadubato and Instagram @cracksinpomo
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