Tate LaFrenier

“Sometimes, that which does not kill you sits heavy over you until all of the things that did not kill you turn into a single counterforce that might. No matter what comes out of a person in these times, the work that we make when we feel like we no longer want to be alive is not the best work if it is also not work that, little by little, is pushing us back toward perhaps staying, even if just for a moment.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

“Even if we recognize the benefits of another culture's ritual, we often allow bias to undermine those feelings of acceptance.”
― Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

“People who may, for a moment, put food on a table for their family, but would also not always fight for that family's right not to hear a word that, out of the wrong mouth, can still be a weapon.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

“His work asks not, as much criticism does, what is happening here, but rather, what does this work mean? What is it doing in the world?”
― Eve L. Ewing