So this whole interaction with self and identity was a very difficult one for me growing up. 在我成长过程中,我一直都很难处理自我与身份之间的相互影响。 The self that I attempted to take out into the world was rejected over and ov
And when I'm acting a role, I inhabit another self, and I give it life for awhile, 当我表演一个角色时,我进入了另一个自我,我在一段时间内赋予其生命, because when the self is suspended so is divisiveness and judgment. 当自我被抑制时,它的多样性和判
Another world was opening up around this time: performance and dancing. 在这个时候,另一个世界出现了:那就是表演和舞蹈。 That nagging dread of self-hood didn't exist when I was dancing. 对于自我纠缠不清的恐惧,在我跳舞时并不存在。 I'd literally l
I was in Congo in February, 二月份的时候我在刚果, dancing and celebrating with women who've survived the destruction of their selves in literally unthinkable ways 与那些自我曾遭受难以想象的毁灭的女人们一起跳舞庆祝, destroyed because ot
Strangely, these revelations didn't cure my low self-esteem, that feeling of otherness. 奇怪的是,这些启示并没有治愈我那缺少的自尊,那种被划为另类的感觉。 My desire to disappear was still very powerful. 我渴望消失的想法依旧十分强烈。 I had a degree
By 19, I was a fully-fledged movie actor, but still searching for definition. 当我19岁时,我已经是一个羽翼丰满的电影演员,但却仍在寻找定义。 I applied to read anthropology at university. 我在大学里申请攻读人类学。 Dr. Phyllis Lee gave me my in