I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art..

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of..

There's that layering of selves that we can have with someone else across a long relationship. I go to the baths, the Korean spa. I love looking at t….

We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order t….

I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language….

Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, ….

I know that a lot of feminist fears about the trans movement have been, "Wait, we never got to the part where we focus on women! We tried for a minut….

Our kids just aren't living in the same generation, and if they're not introduced to gender identity as a problem, they won't internalize them as a p….

I'm not sure how to put this, but I didn't want things like gender transition to be, like, the money shot in talking about bodily change. The truth i….

Yes, I'm writing about motherhood, but I bristle a little bit, especially living with someone whose parenting falls between the cracks of what the cu….

It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine..

labels can be fun! Some people are like, "As a card-carrying bear, where I also have a little bit of fairy in me..." People have fun collaging these;….

Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from….

Most of the bio men on earth were born to women, so it's pretty ordinary! But I think because I had come from a matriarchy - my father died when I wa….

Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're….

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignit….

For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chos….

I feel excited in that I think boys born to feminists have a leg up. At least, the ones I've met seem like they do. There's something really vital ab….

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't….

For pragmatic reasons, for lessening of violence and for allowing people to live better lives, I think that the march forward for GLBTQ+ rights is a ….