to push back on stigma, and before he ever picked up a mic he was a poet, publishing his first book, _From the Silence of Duchamp to the Noise of Boys_. He reflected with me on performance as connection — what it means to hold a stage alone for an hour with nothing but his own instincts — and we closed out talking about the global economy, the gap between billionaires and everyone else, and what care looks like right now inside artist communities that are struggling to get by.