14 quotes found
“So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.”
“Glitter family is my long-time favourite term for this: the people who those of us pushed to societys margins (and beyond) make our cohort. Glitter is known to be shiny and unruly, easy to get and ...”
“I live in a constellation of intimates, and the shape of us is a family. We touch base and check in, with each other and alsoI am so gratified to reportthey sometimes check in with one another. Cor...”
“I have a whole set of problem-solving behaviors and I am anxious to use them, in much the same way that I would stand up on the train to give my seat to someone who seems to need it more than I do:...”
“I don't switch much, don't really want many people to fuck me, because there's a whole code, unwritten but no less rigid than if it were chiseled in stone, about how Tops Must be, how Butches Must ...”
“I know what I am. I know that I've chosen to identify as a transgender woman, and that I am - by and large - happy with where I am in this world. I'm far from perfect, and I could give you a list a...”
“Instead of saying that all gender is this or all gender id that, let's recognize that the word gender has scores of meanings built into it. It's an amalgamation of bodies, identities, and life expe...”
“There are more locations than girl and boy, man and woman. Decamping from one does not have to mean climbing into another. Theres plenty of space in between, or beyond the bounds, or all along and ...”
“My conversations with people who are just beginning to understand and include transsexual and transgender people in their plans or programs lean heavily on this. For them, the very fact of a transs...”
“As she began to speak she stood and started to wrap herself, expertly, creating a binding in minutes that held without a wrinkle until the show ended. Peggy made a connection between binding her br...”
“You do not see deviantly gendered people walking around with Nalgene bottles, getting our sixty-four recommended ounces as we go through our days. I am sure that somewhere there is an argument to b...”
“Identities arent meant to be permanent. Theyre like cars: they take us from one place to another. We work, travel, and seek adventure in them until they break down beyond repair. At that point, liv...”
“Trauma or no, I would have been trans no matter what body I'd been born with. Tell the doctors that we exist for the health of humanity, which needs to find wholeness and belief in complexity. Girl...”
“Identities aren’t meant to be permanent. They’re like cars: they take us from one place to another. We work, travel, and seek adventure in them until they break down beyond repair. At that point, l...”
