Blog Post #9 Disidentification

‘Disidentification’ is the state of absence of identification in sense. It is the ability to step back an observe the content of our awareness and identify as the observer. For example, if you believe that there is something that is pushed away, you are making it real, the mind is holding on, contracting in that place. The time I felt ‘Disidentified’ was when I left my important works from my workplace and decided to hangout with friends to be less stress out. However, I felt that the work I left behind could make others satisfied. The mind of myself was still restricting itself. So, disidentification is a relaxation of that contraction. Munoz says that ‘Disidentification is a strategy of resistance and survival for minority subjects such as queers of color.’ This means that it is a way to identity besides make a choice to identify with a mainstream concept like whiteness or claiming blackness or queerness which may only reverse the social hierarchy put in place by the mainstream ideology.