In a Holding Cell with a Transgender Migrant

The politics of the humane opposes, contradicts, and combats the politics of profit, the politics of the machine, and the politics of spectacle. It is a method of engagement, consciousness-raising, and ultimately, leadership that seeks to reorient social relations and institutional policy so that they are no longer imprisoned by the cruelty of racism and other forms of hatred or encaged within the narrow thinking of cold, emotionally detached strategy of careerists in politico-drag. The politics of the humane, typically through the homiletics of example, preach the need to see social and economic issues through the eyes of the most endangered and harassed, reframing a worldview so as to achieve governance through the demands of the simplest of questions: What improves the prospect, quality, and dignity of human life?

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