Although wildly different (one being realism, one a post-apocalyptic re-telling of the Odyssey), they were the first books I – as a pansexual and non-binary teen – read in which I existed.
Possibly, though, another cause for the sadness was that I realized, on some level, that my parents, when they watched me trying to devise schemes for observing the drum's rotation, were wholly wrong about what they were seeing — that the world they saw and suffered over was wholly different from the childhood world in which I existed.
What she felt and expressed with the most intense passion was a mystical, religious vision of life, "a consciousness of what I call 'reality': a thing I see before me: something abstract; but residing in the downs or sky; beside which nothing matters; in which I shall exist and continue to exist. . . .
My safe space has given me a second home one in which I can exist free of the idea that I can be too much of something and not enough of something else".
I've said this a million times, and I'll say it a million more: Las Fotos Project has become a space in which I can exist and create art for the sole purpose of doing it.
It's escalated, and there's a basic indifference to human fate on the part of authoritarian systems, which I believe exists not in a faraway country necessarily but here and now in this country".
This is usually to find a word I can't quite put my finger on (I recently said in front of an audience of 250 that I had the memory of a grapefruit, which my husband amended later to 'half a grapefruit'), but which I know exists.
If you end up in a relationship, you sometimes have to lose the closeness of your friendships, for example, or you have to move away somewhere … For me that creates the sense of melancholy which I think exists in most people's lives.
