“The first thing you're going to want to know about me is: Am I a boy, or am I a girl?”
― Symptoms of Being Human
― Symptoms of Being Human
“Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.”
― Gender Queer: A Memoir
― Gender Queer: A Memoir
“i’ll be okay
even if i don’t understand
how i don’t want to be a girl, but also don’t want to be a man”
― Have Some Pride: A Collection of LGBTQ+ Inspired Poetry
even if i don’t understand
how i don’t want to be a girl, but also don’t want to be a man”
― Have Some Pride: A Collection of LGBTQ+ Inspired Poetry
“How are you supposed to be believed about the harm that you experience when people don't even believe that you exist?
The assumption is that being a masculine man or a feminine woman is normal, and that being "us" is an accessory. Like if you remove our clothing, our makeup, and our pronouns, underneath the surface we are just men and women playing dress-up.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
The assumption is that being a masculine man or a feminine woman is normal, and that being "us" is an accessory. Like if you remove our clothing, our makeup, and our pronouns, underneath the surface we are just men and women playing dress-up.”
― Beyond the Gender Binary
“you’re such a pretty girl” they say
but they don’t see the way she recoils back from the world
as if it’s coming for her like fire, as if it burns
and it does
it burns like a flame that no one can see
so white hot and intense that it rivals the sun
it melts her skin and eats away at her flesh
until she is nothing
nothing but a skeleton that no one can call
a girl”
― Have Some Pride: A Collection of LGBTQ+ Inspired Poetry
but they don’t see the way she recoils back from the world
as if it’s coming for her like fire, as if it burns
and it does
it burns like a flame that no one can see
so white hot and intense that it rivals the sun
it melts her skin and eats away at her flesh
until she is nothing
nothing but a skeleton that no one can call
a girl”
― Have Some Pride: A Collection of LGBTQ+ Inspired Poetry
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