“Scratch the surface, and things get strange.” - Candace Vogler Years ago, I glided needles into other people’s arms. This occurred approximately 6,000 times. As I drew the blood of 6,000 strangers, I’d think about intimacy. Since then, I’ve tried to look into the guts of that precise, bloody, and delicate relationship between my patients and I. This is an exploration of those guts. Intimacy is tricky in that one can’t quite track it. Queer theorist Lauren Berlant explains th