Sublime

This willingness to write off huge swaths of humanity that are cast as lesser within supremacist narratives is the strongest glue that binds together the pastel-hued, self-loving world of women’s wellness with the fire-breathing, immigrant-bashing world of the Bannon right.

These days, if you say you work in research, most people assume you work in academia. But it’s sort of odd that we assume you need someone’s permission to do research. There’s no reason that universities need to be the gatekeepers of exploring and developing new ideas.

Poor people, queer people, Black people, unhoused people—especially the women and gender-nonconforming people among them—to varying degrees operate outside convention because convention has rejected us.

Like author Arundhati Roy, I believe “another world is not only possible, she is on her way. . . . On a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.”