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Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition

by Natsume Sōseki

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Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity

by Micah Rajunov

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Burning Butch by R/B Mertz

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had felt good, but it was like the drip coffee back in America versus the espresso made in Europe.

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“How could Hell be any worse than trying to live with all these secrets? At least in Hell, if you were on fire, you didn’t have to pretend you weren’t.”
― R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

tags: lesbian, lgbtq, memoir

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“And all is well and beautiful as long as I keep moving. Why do I ever stop moving? Why did we stop moving, us nomads? What compelled us to settle down?”
― Rebecca Schiller, A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

tags: adhd, nomadic-life, nomads

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“it is impossible to unlace
my heartstrings from yours
how do I untangle
a connection authored by the stars?”
― Whitney Hanson, Harmony

tags: grief-and-loss, lgbt, love

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“Sometimes I have all this energy, I'm unstoppable and I can do all these things at once, really fast, and then it keeps going, like a whirlwind and I can't stop it. Then other times I'm so muddled and I can't manage, so confused and angry and upset. I don't understand it.”
― Rebecca Schiller, A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind―A Memoir

tags: adhd, adhd-life

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“Real God and Love, too, I knew, must be more like the mother who stretches her mind around queerness and polyamory and all the limits of gender, and keeps inviting the children back who’ve hurt her or done what she never would have—a mom who believes in Love.”
― R/B Mertz, Burning Butch

tags: lesbian, lgbt, memoir

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