Exhibit a) #stray

Where are the good cars and also what is good and why is that

U know ur an urbanite when u suddenly find ur self using background commuters for ambient noise like most people would use the sound of birds in a garden or a bubbling brook.

I think if teenage me knew moments like that were on the way some day she might have carried some hardships a bit more easily idk

‘You need to engage more in politics’ is the dumbest and most dangerous sentiment I’ve ever heard.

Politics is in the makeup I wear and when I am not wearing it. Politics is in who I date and when I decide not to. Politics is in the shoes I wear. The places I go on holiday, whether I go on holiday, who I go on holiday with. Politics is what I learned when I was a child and what I’m learning now.

Politics is me intentionally leaving the social early and alone. Politics is whether I get drunk, where and with who. Politics is me walking in the dark, walking in the day, what I wear when I walk, what I decide not to wear. Politics is in my hair being long, short, up or down.

Politics is how you spend your time, your attention, your energy. Politics is the rooms you put yourself in. Politics is the rooms that you don’t because you dont want to, and the rooms you don’t because you don’t know they exist. Politics is how you get yourself into and out of those rooms.