I’ve been thinking a lot about this and how your family appear in your work, as a kind of a multitude of parents and parenting. It’s like, I don’t really have that family structure like I had when I was younger. Hold that space for my extended family and have it be this atmosphere where you’re just being seen and taken care of. I don’t have any family here … but I’ve been coming to California for 20 years, and I’ve always had really close friends here. In that sense, I do have family here, but it’s not blood, a lot of my chosen family is here.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 18, 2021 14:26 UTC