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Grace Walcott once felt as though her queer passport could be revoked at any moment. A relationship with a man, a marriage that opened, a life that didn’t fit neatly into someone else’s definition—and suddenly there were questions about whether she belonged. Grace is a drama therapist, filmmaker and author of Wide Open, a memoir about opening her marriage and creating a different kind of family. Her film, River of Life LGBTQ+, brings queer people across generations together to explore identity, shame, community and the stories they carry in their bodies. In this live conversation, Grace and I explore the roles we inherit, the labels that can both liberate and confine us, and what happens when we are seen by people who don’t ask us to explain ourselves away. We talk about her experience of loving more than one person, the judgments that followed, and how creativity and embodied play can open doors that conversation alone sometimes cannot. What does it take to claim your own identity? And what might become possible when we stop asking someone else to authorize it?
