There are vital components of our vast online identities that rely on a handful of volunteers who have gotten anywhere near enough financial and in-kind support from the rest of us who use their tools.
The vast majority of identity crimes go unsolved, because the number of cases has stretched law enforcement resources thin.
The fact that these claims are deliberate does not mean they are disingenuous; in fact, the vast majority of identity claims are authentic reflections of the ideas and values of the person making them (e.g., the quotes that people often append to their e-mail signatures).
However, relatively few contigs showed this degree of divergence: 2120 contigs (56%) were 99.5% or more identical, and the others matched the WGS contigs at a range of identities, with the vast majority >98% identical (Appendix A, Figure A1).
Those who embrace a vast range of "identities" – ethnicities, nationalities, races, sexual and gender categories, classes of economic under-privilege and disability – are now encouraged to be possessive of their experience and to regard other peoples' attempts to participate in their lives and traditions, either actively or imaginatively, as a form of theft.
In the past, trans visibility on network television has proven to be fairly problematic, with representation of the trans community usually presented in an extremely narrow, limited understanding of the vast plethora of identities encompassed by this signifier.
Well, yes: he also tried to turn Britain into an authoritarian state with identity cards, vast government detention powers and mass surveillance.
(To point out that – in the vast, vast main – the identity politics sceptics are white men, whose articles are filled with quotes from other white men, doubtless sounds like I'm playing the identity game, too; and yet it is one of those awkward things called "facts").
At the same time, what they throw up - the unreliability of fact, the shiftiness of identity, the vast emotional confusions, the driving power of sex and love, the grand hopes and frequent disappointments - serve as a good introduction to his nature and his work.
A week that commemorates and celebrates the vast spectrum of human identity.
