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  • #1
    Courtney Carola
    “i’ll be okay
    even if i don’t understand
    how i don’t want to be a girl, but also don’t want to be a man”
    Courtney Carola, Have Some Pride: A Collection of LGBTQ+ Inspired Poetry

  • #2
    Maia Kobabe
    “Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.”
    Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

  • #3
    Leah Raeder
    “Not a boy or a girl, not any binary, rigid definition of a person. Just my everything.”
    Leah Raeder, Cam Girl

  • #4
    Jeff Garvin
    “The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?”
    Jeff Garvin, Symptoms of Being Human

  • #5
    E.M. Hamill
    “Male? female? both?
    No one's ever asked me that question, I see myself as neither. I'm something different all together.”
    E.M. Hamill, Dalí

  • #6
    Courtney Carola
    “you’re such a pretty girl” they say
    but they don’t see the way she recoils back from the world
    as if it’s coming for her like fire, as if it burns
    and it does
    it burns like a flame that no one can see
    so white hot and intense that it rivals the sun
    it melts her skin and eats away at her flesh
    until she is nothing
    nothing but a skeleton that no one can call
    a girl”
    Courtney Carola, Have Some Pride: A Collection of LGBTQ+ Inspired Poetry

  • #7
    Alok Vaid-Menon
    “How are you supposed to be believed about the harm that you experience when people don't even believe that you exist?

    The assumption is that being a masculine man or a feminine woman is normal, and that being "us" is an accessory. Like if you remove our clothing, our makeup, and our pronouns, underneath the surface we are just men and women playing dress-up.”
    Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

  • #8
    “I don't identify with the words female or male. They are not my words. The space in which I have felt gendered female and transitioned to gendered male has been in the ways people have treated me.”
    Nevo Zisin, Finding Nevo

  • #9
    Aimee Herman
    “What happens when we say something out loud? Does it become more real? Is it any less really when we keep it to ourselves?”
    Aimee Herman, Everything Grows

  • #10
    Alok Vaid-Menon
    “The scrutiny on our bodies distracts us from what's really going on here: control. The emphasis on our appearance distracts us from the real focus: power.”
    Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

  • #11
    Aimee Herman
    “I feel like my body is in a waiting room.”
    Aimee Herman, Everything Grows

  • #12
    Sam Killermann
    “Gender is like a Rubik’s Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.”
    Sam Killermann, The Social Justice Advocate's Handbook: A Guide to Gender

  • #13
    “People are complicated. And messy. Seems too convenient that we’d all fit inside some multiple-choice question.”
    Riley Cavanaugh

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  • #15
    “When did you know you were a girl? When did I know I was a boy?" he said. "I knew my whole life. I can't tell you exactly when, but it wasn't like I was ten and realized, 'Oh gee, I must be a boy!' What people fail to realize is they made that decision way earlier than that. It just happened that their gender identity and their anatomy matched.”
    Jaime A. Seba, Feeling Wrong in Your Own Body: Understanding What It Means to Be Transgender



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