"I saw a Gay Liberation Front flier from the 70’s that said: “Touch One Another.” I didn’t quite understand its meaning until Grace and I were at Jewel’s, and Avery told us about the no-touch laws.Then, we understood that the state had existed in the space between two people. I thought about how law creates forcefields between us, isolating us from the touch we need and want. I thought about the after-life of these laws, the way that forcefields still exist all around us and between us.It was profound, and scary, to think about about the way those anti-touch laws still affect my experience of myself."
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Reina Gossett and Grace Dunham, talk at Williams College, April 30th, 2015
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