cody cook-parrott (formerly marlee grace)

it’s hard to capture an entire being human in just a few paragraphs. with cody, I found it even harder than usual. perhaps because they are so many things: a writer, a dancer, an artist, and a “shape maker.”

they have books on social media addiction and  “how to not always be working.” they teach and do creative advising. they started out as a starving artist but have become a celebrated success. they dance alone in their home but have thousands of followers who watch on instagram. they has a podcast and a project called CENTER, “an experiment unfolding in space and time.”

they live in a patriarchal, cisnormative, heterosexual-driven culture as a queer artist constantly blurring the lines of the known and the unknown. they are not afraid to be many things and they are not afraid to share their truth in all of it.

here are their thoughts on spinning out and getting calm, sharing truth, grappling with doubt and living in joy, and using all of it to find your own “right size.”

“I want to connect with other people who feel what I feel. I want to feel less alone in general. people on earth often connect over what we are struggling with rather than what we are celebrating about ourselves. I want to surround myself with people who are celebrating the same way I am or who are growing the same way I am.”