Iscaant: I go into every interview with the base line belief that one, i'm going to give them some respect for their area of expertis. And at the end of the book, you know, i'm feeling changed, but the world is still the world. She says her job in that particular case is to write somebody else's story, not my story and to report it out as accurately and thoroughly. "I am a very much appreciate yo taking the time to talk to me about it," Iscaant writes.
Chloé Cooper Jones is a philosopher and journalist whose work has appeared in GQ, The Verge, The Believer and many other publications. Her new book is Easy Beauty.
”I literally didn't talk to anyone in my life about disability until I was, like, 30. Ever. Not my husband, not my friends, as little as possible to my own mother. I had this very bad idea that what I needed to do in every single social situation was wait until people could unsee my body…. And it was all in service of trying to be truly recognized or truly seen. And, of course, what was happening is I was involved in a complete act of self erasure because my body and my real self are related…. There is no real me without my physical self…. I did not think I was going to ever write about this, but once I started, it felt like I met myself for the first time.”
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