Tokenization Quotes

“When all the public eye sees are headscarves instead of individual stories, our community is collectively tokenized. It creates the perception that opportunity is limited and only a rare few of us can make it. Whenever that happens to an already marginalized community, it pits its own members in a competition against one another instead of against the restrictive frameworks that put us in that position in the first place. The first hijabi whatever won't eliminate Islamophobia just as the first black president hasn't eliminated racism, though both are signifiers of some type of progress — symbols of ascending beyond adversity.”
― Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age Story

“The virus is spreading.”
― Anthony Pompliano

“Meet actual famous trans writer. Feel indicted when famous trans writer says that they think all trans people want to be celebrities. That the drive to celebrity is an endemic problem that fractures trans communities. That we are all so alone for so long, the only way to survive is to nurture a private sense of specialness and uniqueness—all the while fearing that this sense of specialness is our only lifejacket as we swim in a culture where tokenization tells us that we must be the only one, the fiercest, most brutal one, the special one.”
― Torrey Peters, How to Become a Really Really Not Famous Trans Lady Writer

“Once you cash out from the online estates (Blockchain projects like holding Bitcoin, mining, tokenization, crypto staking, etc., and Forex markets), offline real estate is the next big thing!”
― Olawale Daniel