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“When I got outside, I felt pains in my crotch, I had held my legs together so tight trying to make that woman understand. But I reckon now she couldn't understand. She married a man with a slash in his face instead of a mouth. So how could she understand?”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“Both Iris and Reese had a sense of themselves as trans elders; despite only being in their late twenties, they were, in trans age, much older than even that trio of just-out forty-somethings sitting together on a checkered blanket.”
― Detransition, Baby
― Detransition, Baby
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“There's this phenomenon that you'll get sometimes - but not too often, if you're lucky - where someone you think you know says something about your gayness that you weren't expecting at all. Ben called it a tiny earthquake. I don't think he was wrong. You're destabilized, is the point. How much just depends on where the quake originated, the fault lines.”
― Memorial
― Memorial
“I got to a point where I thought I didn't need to put up with the bullshit of gender in order to satisfy my sense of self.”
― Detransition, Baby
― Detransition, Baby
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