Sometimes I’m so afraid that we’ve become so good at announcing our differences, in defining ourselves, our identities, down to the last detail, that there is simply no more room, or language, to talk about what connects us. Words die out, too, and with them, ways of thinking. Of course things have to be hammered out, painful fault lines must be ca

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If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral ob... See more

One of her cartoons features a white ghost with the caption: “Let yourself be seen.” Below it, Stephanie wrote, “I was nervous about putting my work out in the open. Because as much as I wanted people to know what I was doing, I was worried about being exposed. There was a risk of letting myself be seen. Like if they looked too closely, they’d disc

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