Shannon

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“I didn’t regret the decision to take hormones. I
wouldn’t have survived much longer without passing. And the surgery was a gift to myself, a coming home to my body. But I wanted more than to just barely exist, a stranger always trying not to get involved. I wanted to find out who I was, to define myself. Whoever I was, I wanted to deal with it, I wanted to live it again. I wanted to be able to explain my life, how the world looked from behind my eyes.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

“Feminism is the work that you do, and the people you do it for who matter more than anything else.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues