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“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
― Stone Butch Blues
― Stone Butch Blues
“When my alarm jangled in the morning, I awoke feeling small and terrified. I couldn't find myself in my own life—there was no memory of me that I could grasp. There was no place outside of me where I belonged. So every morning I willed myself back into existence.”
― Stone Butch Blues
― Stone Butch Blues
“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”
― Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
― Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
“Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.”
― Stone Butch Blues
― Stone Butch Blues
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