We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don’t. - Rebecca Solnit

Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have spent vast amounts of your life as someone else, as people who died long ago, as people who never lived, as strangers you never met.

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.