Interstitial Injustice and Ontic Injustice: A Reply to Ásta
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Social Construction
Indeterminacy
Social Ontology
Abstract
In life, you generally do not want to be in between anything. You do not want to be between two people fighting. You do not want to be between jobs. You do not want to be between a rock and a hard place. You do not want to be between Scylla and Charybdis. Finally—and most relevant to the topic at hand—it is challenging to be between any of the dominant social identity categories (man/woman, gay/straight, black/white). Ásta’s account of interstitial injustice articulates the way in which it is bad to be “in between” dominant social categories.