So for instance in rap music, you very often hear words that would seem very racist, or very misogynous or very homophobic but in some of those instances, the words are being taken back or redefined so that they lose their injurious quality.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.

In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist speech is not protected. And you have to link the speech to conduct or to a certain kind of threat against minority population. I know that in Europe, this kind of framework doesn't exist in the same way so it's very difficult to make the analogy.

I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.