Art and literature are always instruments for finding and forging identity.

The problem with memory is that it doesn’t really work the way we’re taught that it does. It’s not a bunch of select episodes or islands floating upon a vast sea of forgetting. Instead, we have far too many memories, and there’s always more than one version of the same story.

And why is love a revolutionary act? Because it’s the first thing you teach people you plan to colonize-slash-oppress-slash-discriminate against: that they don’t belong, that they aren’t worthy of love.

Identity is a social relationship, not some private characteristic or individually determined property!

And anyway, nuance and ambivalence always work in favor of those who hold the power.