“The idea of tending to anything that belonged to me – my home, my clothes, my appearance – was unbearable, because everything at that time depended on my not having a body. Washing the dishes meant acknowledging that I had hands to wash them with, a stomach to fill, a hunger to address, a body to nourish.”

“The idea of tending to anything that belonged to me – my home, my clothes, my appearance – was unbearable, because everything at that time depended on my not having a body. Washing the dishes meant acknowledging that I had hands to wash them with, a stomach to fill, a hunger to address, a body to nourish.”

— Daniel Mallory Ortberg