INWARD IMPACT ON YOUTH

One of the clearest contemporary examples of fluid identity and liberation through hybridity is the way that gender expressive youth, as well as queer youth are forming and expressing their identities through digital platforms, such as TikTok and Instagram. Overtime social media has become laboratories of people building character in their self. So with that being said, this would include gender, sexuality race, nor divergence and disabilities. These things tend to be treated as fixed categories, but as evolving experiences. Current generation use language, such as non-binary, gender, fluid, demisexual and many other terms as labels and tools to continue to grow to be accepted.

Research from the University of California Santa Cruz showed that social media has brought in how the current generations understand gender and sexuality. The gender binary is being challenged as in the line between online and off-line identity. The thing is that digital self expression now shapes real world, belonging, and activism.

This goes back to Donna Hardway's cyborg vision of breaking down boundaries like males and female, as well as human and machine. This also goes back to Janelle Monáe celebration in dirty computer. The main difference is that today's food identity develops within corporate platforms were empowerment and surveillance can both exist at the same time.

It's believed that within 230 years I didn't we may become even more technologically embedded by being shaped by AI. Instead of fix categories, people may even move between configurations of self wow creating new forms of resistance that focus on a thought autonomy over data.