My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget.

I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further from my other creative selves. I used to be able to see myself doing many things and sometimes I still long for a job that involves less pressure and grappling with people but, as you say, I am one of the lucky ones so I try to just focus on feeling lucky and carry on!

Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You feel this way?! Me too!" Hanging out is consciousness-raising.

I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.

The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask