Yes, so as I mentioned, I published before I perished because I was never sure that I would wake up the next day. And, as Leonard Cohen put it, “There’s a crack in everything, and that’s how the light gets in.” I basically learned that vulnerability is an invitation for the light to come in. When I was eight, I believe, my mom wrote this weekly newspaper column about essentially my life story, so the entire bullying and things like that were a matter of national discussion. I learned very quickly that as soon as we generalize it, so that it’s not just about my vulnerability but also about everybody else suffering the same thing, it turns the personal into the structural. And then, instead of everybody “reading the air”—it’s a Japanese expression, like guessing the social context, what is appropriate to do—one can actually create common knowledge and “write the air,” so to speak.

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