“Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening.”
—Audre Lorde
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Look, I’m not proud of the naïveté with which I jumped into grad school. I was an investigative journalist, I knew how to do research, fact-checking, interviews. Why didn’t I do it with my own life?