The creation of new, factious identities hinges on two main aspects: contradiction (within reality and context) and ambiguity.
But let's be clear: this progress has little bearing on gender-neutral athletes, because trans identities hinge on the gender binary.
If your identity fundamentally hinges on your proximity to others, then the things to which you turn for relief from disquietreflect a common idea of the world in which we live.
In Nella Larsen's "Passing" and James Weldon Johnson's "Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," for example, light-skinned protagonists of African-American heritage successfully pass as white, demonstrating that racial identity could hinge on voluntary association and careful self-presentation.
Has the quartet's identity ever really hinged on their nationality?
Luna's father, Gustavo Luna, told Grupo Imagen that the mistaken identity appeared to hinge on the fact that both girls share the name Alondra, and that he had met Díaz, who was his sister's brother-in-law, several times when in Houston over a decade ago.
But here her lesson hinges on identity and difference, with references to Rimbaud, Shakespeare and Freud.
All the hinges of identity I had placed on my appearance and femininity were being challenged and unpeeled like layers of an onion, in rapid succession.
With Wikipedia and the internet, hinging your identity on knowing more information can hold you back from promotion.
In other words, just because the national conversation has hinged on identity, hate, and terrorism of late largely thanks to the messaging of Donald Trump and his Republican Party doesn't mean there's no time left to go after entrenched oligarchy.
