In response to Amanda:
(I tried writing this beneath her post, but it was a fail)

Amanda,
I like your multi-modal, deconstructionist, word- and mind-fucking play response. It's a jagged, bitter pill---identity/culture and academia/literacy. It's a pill I have swallowed, and it altered/cured me, but made me sicker too....."what nourishes me, kills me."  But then I am reborn again, over and over. 
Word, girl.