what usually needs to be dealt with. Our name makes a lot of people uncomfortable. It’s not our intent to polarize for the sake of ceremony. In fact, we were all young boys when we learned that our existence itself could be polarizing to folks who didn’t know us. is used as a derogatory term to dismiss and separate cultures from their mainstream is used as a way to cue discomfort, to cue the Other. When that unknowable thing is over there, you don’t have to deal with it, you don’t have to be with it. That’s what is supposed to do—dehumanize.
