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“I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“even a person raised in captivity learns to want, yearns to see beyond their cage. How much of our humanity is intrinsic? How much remains, when all else is stripped away?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Normals have been trying to erase us for centuries. I think photography is a way to fix ourselves in place. To prove we were here, and we weren't the monsters they made us out to be.”
― Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days