Where do you go to find sanctuary?
In the early morning while walking my dogs in the woods as we make our way to the creek. I don’t listen to music or an audiobook or talk on the phone. Mostly, we are alone. Best part of every day.
Category: The Write Stuff
A weekly interview series of San Francisco Bay Area authors, first published at SF Weekly from October 4, 2012 to January 28, 2016 and then for a few more years at Litseen.com.
Matthew Clark Davison on the Desire to Know and Be Known
What is the relationship between your identity and your desires? Perhaps related, perhaps not: why is sex (un)important to you?
The older I get the more I question everything about how I’ve constructed my identity and personality. So much of it was survival. Now that I have found love and some acceptance and a bit of relative safety, I wonder about all the early sculpting that shaped Matthew.
Sex is a great metaphor. Queer sex still has the power to dismantle. In practice, it can be great, or it can flop, it can be with one person or many, someone you know or don’t. For me, it’s always related to the desire to know and be known, however futile that desire.