Interview by “To The Best Of Our Knowledge”: Kathryn Bond Stockton On Ecstatic Kissing

When you think about it long enough, kissing is such a weird dance we do. Putting you face up against someone else’s and pressing your mouths together. But when we get it right — there’s nothing like it.

Kathryn Bond Stockton is an English professor and queer theorist and a self-professed lover of kissing. She wrote a whole book just to make out what kissing means in our lives.