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It's unclear if you've touched on personal testimony in this section, but for me, it was a huge lens through which i viewed the rest of the class and all of our readings. Personal testimony is a way to shut people up, like you said: "I know X because I am X, and you should listen to me because you do not know what it's like to be X like me." There is much to be learned from personal testimony and yet, it is a way of shutting down the conversation. You can not argue with someone who claims the experience of an ethnicity. It was an odd experience preaching Latina feminism (as I said in class) when I myself am struggling to understand its implications. There is a delicate balance to life-story-telling that requires leaving the parameters of identity open for interpretation; there is a relatedness between individuals in our endless search to understand ourselves as people, as women, as feminists!!! (are you there yet???)