I Want To Touch You

I Think So Much Of My Early Life, Even Though I Grew Up White And Middle Class, I Was Completely Shattered By The Horrifically Violent Atmosphere I Grew Up In. I Am A Consequence Of Violence. That Opened A Door To Many Realities That I Would Not Have Experienced Had I Not Survived What I Did.

If You Are Divided From Your Body, Then You Are Divided From The Body Of The World.

Today The United States Has The Highest Prison Population In The World, Over 2.1 Million People. ... We Lock People Up At A Rate That Is Seven To Ten Times That Of Any Other Democracy.

Trauma Dissociates Us From The Parts Of Our Body That Are Wounded, So We Have To Leave Our Whole Body. It's A Journey You Take Your Whole Life, That Coming Back In, Re-landing In Your Body, In Your Self, On The Earth. I Think One Of The Reasons It's Been So Easy, In A Way, For Us To Violate Both Women And The Earth Is This Profound Dissociation That Exists In Everyone.

I Think We Have To Get Bolder. Why After Fukushima Didn't We All Go Out And Shut Down All The Nuclear Power Plants And Stay There Until It Happened?