...I believe we have reached the limits of restorative political projects and need instead to focus our energies on sketching, in annoying levels of detail, a new vision for the future. I have come to believe that mourning and grief, perhaps paradoxically, are key to elaborating this future.
-- Suzanne Schneider, "Palestinian nationalism and rights of return"
Any security based on who you are is never going to be security at all, because essentialism is pre-fascism. You're never going to be pure enough; your identity will not protect you.