Resistance and self-fashioning, in many interations, seem focused upone the strategies available to those in subordinated positions and situations for challenging power dynamics that contingently and seemingly perpetually keep them down. Much work emerging out of feminist politics, queer theory, and critical race studies seeks designed to stick it to the man, so-to-speak, as it certainly should. While such practices and theorizations are important for a politics of critique, they may draw attention away from what might be even more vtal theorizations about how to get those within, upon, and along dominant positionalities to engage techniques and practices that will reduce their own hold and/or enjoyment of excessive and oppressive power. One such strategy involves a thoroughgoing refusal of the white self, or the straight self, or theman self, via a series of silences. Silences intended to refuse one's own privileges, along with silences that yield to those in positions of under-privilege, act as a means of responsibly attending political inequalities
