From Jeanette Winterson's recent substack article

i’m not even an Adult adult yet & it’s crazy to see how difficult adulthood makes it to maintain friendships… i hate it here 

i love not having many friends and i love not getting to see the few i do have very often and i love feeling like i’m crumbling to dust all the time

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can the next big trending thing have lesbians in it i can only care about so many fictional men

thinking about knitting math and how people teach math courses specifically for knitters and yet when we learn math its presented to us as something like outside of the body and we're told that the ultimate math achievement is to learn math with no kinetic applications. and like the reason i think people learn English and arts or whatever more quickly and find it easier is because we can bring our own lived experiences into those things

...and even within stem there's this idea that biology especially conservation biology is like the dumbest science and the smartest science is like working with electrons and stuff we have no way to fully comprehend in a way that allows us to bring our lived experience in...and like we're not taught to think about that stuff in that way...like in the heirachy of learning the greatest achievement is one where the body is most absent. even though thats not even true. but its like almost no one in a math class is going into it with any embodied knowledge of sewing or construction or manufacturing and production that would allow us to approach these concepts in an embodied way. and no one is supposed to want to aspire towards sewing or construction or manufacturing or even cooking and like if you are in an upper level math or science class it's assumed you're there so you can actively avoid having to do those things....