Laura Dowling

Is this really what I want to do with my life?

How can I have a family?

Is this going to impact my work?

I practice my faith.

Is this a bigger question whenever I get, if I get to the pearly gates?

Like, how does this all work?

And I can tell you this, you know, for every gay person I met, I really do think we start with an inner homophobic mindset.

conversation with ourselves that takes a long time to outgrow.

And some people, you never outgrow that.

And then we have, sadly, multiple marriages now that, you know, you have people not feeling comfortable in their bodies.

And if you take it in the round, I really do think about this a lot because my team and I do.

I always say on a good day, it's we, on a bad day, it's me, because my team and I, there's a lot of hard days in politics.

I work with predominantly women who are forces of nature and we talk about it, like hurt people hurt people.

And regardless of whether you're an inner, you have that inner hatred or you're,

white man of a certain vintage who has hatred of thyself and in projecting it and creating what they're creating right now or you're a woman of my age who's really struggling with body comfort that ripple effects hurt so many so hurt people hurt people and then how do we just stop people from hurting themselves and in turn hurt stop hurting other people and and sometimes we dress it up and I spend a lot of time in my tampon designed car and I really think about it's

She's here.

She's here from the country.

And I think about that, the thought of, like, just how do we make human civility nicer again?

Yeah.

Because... We need more accepting.