marlee grace

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

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

she lives in a patriarchal, cisnormative, heterosexual-driven culture as a queer female artist constantly blurring the lines of the known and the unknown. she is not afraid to be many things and she is not afraid to share her truth in all of it.

here are her 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.”