I'm at a place of deep cynicism about American politics.

Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and Democratic politician do.

I'm at a place of deep cynicism about American politics.

I see a huge, huge divide between the people who are facing the most barriers and violence and the kinds of stories being told in mainstream American politics. The issues that I think most about - how many people's lives are being affected by prisons and policing, how many people's lives are being affected by immigration enforcement and deportation - those stories aren't being touched, let alone told, in mainstream politics.

The things that I want to see happen get no play in mainstream American politics. My primary interests are the legalization of sex work and prison abolition.

It's easy to set up binaries of who's good and who's bad, who is right and who is wrong. But I really don't think that way. I believe that people can change and grow.

Identity politics isn't old school! It's still alive and well.