Identity: being Barbara, being female, being a daughter, being my race, being my religion, being my various occupations, being, formerly homeless, a sexworker, a professor, etc., all these identities prevented me from being present in an absolute sense. Identity can be an extremely controversial topic. I released my sel(f)ves from ALL socially and culturally constructed identity, such as race, gender, religion, ethnicity by engaging in an IDENTITY "GAME" that I created that was along the order of "HUNGER GAMES"!

The gaol of the IDENTITY GAME was is to virtually "kill" my constructed identities! I imagined that I competed in olympic type virtual "funerals" after competitions that I "held" for all the rituals and traditions and customs associated with my various identity stereotypes.

I was the most stereotypical, the most obnoxious that I could be, i.e., the most dramatic and egotistical female, the whitest, the most religious, the most ethnic, etc.

Finally, I became aware of how these identities enslaved me and I became free from all LIMITED identites. The "PRIZE" is the emergence of limitless humanity, limitless love and limitless humor due to subliminal humanity "identity".

This new "Identity" involves making continuously new memories and this new "Identity" enables me to finally live in the present because I am finally able to embrace my own "dark" and "light" sides. This is because because all judgment has been eliminated by letting go of all socialy and culturally constructed identities.