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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