We do not negate our bodies or our experiences, we do not distance ourselves from them. We put them in the picture or take them as the starting point for our texts, we write them into the world or history, we prove to ourselves and others that we exist, we look at ourselves, not narcissistically, but curiously, mournfully, angrily, lovingly, questioningly, sufferingly, defiantly, panicky, hatefully, rapturously, paralyzed, rebelliously. Raw.