“If we start preemptively cutting out parts of who we are because theyre not feminist enough, then weve failed before weve begun.”

“Some critics of trans people have told us that we shouldnt feel this pain of being denied the legitimacy of our own selves; gender is, of course, just a social construct. I wonder if these people a...”

“Trying to take away someones language is usually the first step in trying to change them.”

“By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand, and suggests that theres no point in trying.”

“We assume that anything that is new to us is new to human society as a whole, and that if we dont see it reflected in history textbooks and in recent memory then it cannot have existed for long.”

“Even when we are confused about someones gender, and dont have a greater awareness of what it means to be trans, we have a choice to respond with kindness rather than cruelty.”

“We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy ... It's only through people making a stand against t...”

“Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.”

“Diversity is Natures stronghold, yet that very diversity has become a curse for an entire species, which is supposedly the most advanced one on its planet.”

“When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, and inspiratrice, and intuitive, a maker, a ...”

“One thing we have learned is this: bringing compassionate, unflinching awareness to gender dynamics in groups and communities is a remarkably powerful place to begin. As in all spiritual practice, ...”

“Everything is melting in nature. We think we see objects, but our eyes are slow and partial. Nature is blooming and withering in long puffy respirations, rising and falling in oceanic wave-motion. ...”

“Gabriel.' I'm so close to him our lips are almost touching, and then I move closer so our lips are touching as I say his name again. It's like a kiss but it's not really a kiss. And it's nice and I...”

“Anna's voice wasn't a beautiful voice - rough edged and sorrowful, a bit used, somehow male and female at once. Yet it had more vibrancy to it than most Danish voices, which were often thin and whi...”

“Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in t...”