“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
- Bertolt Brecht

A control freak involved in the ongoing project of trying not to be a control freak by working more collaboratively.

"About the body I know very little, though I am steadily trying to improve myself, in the way animals improve themselves by licking. I have always wanted to be sharp and clean. But this is not a story about me."
– Renee Gladman, Juice

"Until I see everything clearly I want to hunt myself down."
- Claude Cahun

"Well, I wasn't born to love at all costs / In fact I could only love a cause that's already been lost"
- Destroyer, The Ignoramus of Love

"Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.”
- Etel Adnan, Fog

“Empire functions best when crisis is ubiquitous. Crisis is Empire’s regular mode of existence, in the same way that an insurance company comes into being only when there’s an accident. The temporality of Empire is the temporality of emergency and catastrophe.”
— Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War

“Regardless of specificity, solidarity always requires awareness, self-criticism, consciousness, the decision to act, and the need to create strategy, to build alliances, and to listen. It always requires taking chances, making mistakes, and trying again.”
― Sarah Schulman, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity

"The poems I had written were failures, but dense ones. It seemed appropriate to think the person’s attempt at wholeness was a series of missteps, which if drawn across an afternoon might prove interesting to other people. I had a way of reminding my friends that we were all in pain, but a fruit tart kind of pain strangers can’t help but enjoy. That day I had, in a sense, gathered all my possessions and gone out onto the street with them."
– Renee Gladman, Juice