“I’m just a random white gal raised upper-middle class. But to think that I am disconnected only allows for the continuation of a system that benefits from my ignorance.”

I put on my suit every day for work.
It takes three hours.

“She didn’t want to commiserate. She wanted me not to have seen, not to know what it is like to move through the world embodying that particular target.”

“Being over 70 is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.”

“What Taylor gets so right, here, is that community is by nature an elusive thing, never fully realized. There is an inherent melancholy to the idea of community, a paradoxical loneliness that lingers.”