Theory* is life (for me). Theory is an extremely intense part of how i experience, interact with and co-create reality. The intensity of the importance of theory for my life is a difference between me and many others. The importance of theory for my life makes me all the more attentive to it: its effects, changes, structure, etc. This attention is a large part of what i have to give. It is what i think my main contribution to projects of help and mutual aid is. i know the amount and intensity of time i spend with theory and becoming theory is made possible among other (often less effective/important) things by my privileged social position. i know i often fail to pay attention to the consequences this has for my theory and how i communicate its ethics to others in different positions. i know i will never stop having to learn. And still, during all of this: theory is what i have to give. Theory becomes my life, my life becomes theory.

• “Theory” in this text refers mainly to a simplified, more conventional definition of “theory” as it is often defined in contrast to “practice”