Indigo Ryder

“LGBTQ resilience—what’s it all about? It’s about coming out to yourself and then coming out to others, on your own timeline. It’s about recognizing the evolution of gender and sexuality across your lifetime—who you are today may change over time, and that’s something to stand up for.”
― Anneliese A. Singh, The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook: Skills for Navigating Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression

“Trust your anger. It is a demand for love.”
― Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

“I confuse instinct for desire—isn’t bite also touch?”
― Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

“That was how I’d always imagined the surface of my heart—smooth, slick, unattached. Nothing to grab on to. Unscored. No one could attach to me once the inevitable heat of life bore down. I suspected the metaphor went deeper still—that I was afraid of marring my heart with the scoring that arose naturally between people, the inevitable bumping against other people’s desires, demands, pettiness, preferences, and all the quotidian negotiations that made up a relationship. Scoring was required for attachment, and my heart lacked the grooves.”
― Christie Tate, Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life