Kris

“man and woman are two of many—stars in a constellation that do not compete but amplify one another’s shine.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“Lawrence remembered a song he’d heard from a traveling minstrel. It claimed that the reason a god needed a festival every year was because it was lonely.”
― Isuna Hasekura, Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1

“What part of you did you have to destroy in order to survive in this world?”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

“This is how power works: It makes the actual people experiencing violence seem like a threat. Moving from a place of fear leads us to make harmful assumptions about one another. In our fear, we treat other people’s identities as if they are something that they are doing to us and not something that just exists.”
― Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary