When I was younger I felt very disempowered, very disappeared. I felt worthless, like I had no right to exist. I think a good part of my life was spent recovering from that. Pulling myself out of that.

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.

When you bring consciousness to anything, things begin to shift.

What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don't have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually.

Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.

I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.