“No, pride does not remove shame. It lives alongside it. Pride is shame's companion. I've never experienced the former without being spurred on by the latter. Moments of shame, just like moments of pride, are flashes indelibly inscribed into the code of our memories. Pride and shame condition us. They influence our decisions. Pride and shame are the two pillars on which we built our public personas, the constructions that we show the world by whispering to ourselves "I'm he/she/they.”