In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

Sometimes, on a personal level, I wince.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Sometimes, on a personal level, I wince,

On a very deeply personal level, I was anxious about it.

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.