Something else I think about the way I think about the below the act of taking – I’ll call it “flag resume” – in and out of bio. The flags inform. Still, someone I respect once called it “grotesque” to use these markers as a “USP,” which sort of hits the nail on the head of critiques I’ve heard and fear, ever since those started to emerge in life re: (eyeroll) undergrad applications. When I add them, I’m saying, hey, let’s find one another! When I subtract them, I’m saying, you know what, let me just exist in maximum Rorschach mode. Ultimately, I feel that’s what’s behind this artist’s choice: not that specificity cheaply sells, but that it potentially restricts. I understand that choice after a life of being jostled around by a brutal, bigoted market. I go back and forth, especially when it no longer feels hyperbolic to say that the flags could endanger people I love.