Lauren Berlant Quote

Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it is something you already own that you can express: my masculinity, my queerness. But identity need not be simply a caption for an image of an unchangeable concrete self. It is also a theory of the future, of history.

The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (ed. Duke University Press, 1997) - ISBN: 9780822319245