Playing Our Own Card

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The speaker reflects on the importance of not letting negative assumptions define them and shares a manipulative incident they experienced. They also grapple with the ethical implications of their actions and the complexity of personal growth.

Where do you go to escape the pain of reality? Today, author Chloé Cooper Jones shares:

The survival strategy many of us use to retreat from our lives and how to become more present;
How she grapples with the world dehumanizing her disabled body;
Why desire and disgust are so connected – and what they teach us; and
The thing Chloé wants most – to be seen as inherently whole – and how to get it.

About Chloé:

Chloé Cooper Jones is a professor, journalist, and the author of the memoir Easy Beauty, which was named a best book of 2022 by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, and was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. She was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing in 2020. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

TW: @CCooperJones

IG: @chloecooperjones

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