Sarah Zutter

“Our desire to be good must count for something, even when we misstep. Even when we fail.”
― Ruben Reyes Jr., There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: A Collection of Short Stories of Fantasy, Migration, and Central American Identity

“Insecurities are not a personal indictment; they are an indictment of the World. Being that this is the case, people deemed Ugly should run toward Insecurity. Not as a trauma to inform their politics—as it is dangerous to navigate the world of politics through trauma rather than an informed praxis—but as a political tool that aids in developing their understanding of and relationship to oppressive power structures.”
― Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

“It frustrates me to think that the people I love may never be rewarded with everything they deserve, but I’m comforted by the fact that they don’t let the current bleakness of the world keep them from fighting to make it a better place. Every day they claim their joy, dreaming out loud with me on the phone, dancing in line outside Friend’s, marching through the streets. I don’t know what happens after, when this is all over. But wherever they’re going, that’s where I’m trying to go too.”
― Edgar Gomez, Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays

“if love, of self or of others, is to play a role at all in any liberatory efforts, it must be a starting point and not an end. If self-love is where we start, it must be the driving force behind our continued struggle; otherwise, we become stagnant and immovable, fixated on always challenging how we see our bodies and never getting to the place where we no longer have to interrogate our bodies at all.”
― Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness