Jade Paris

“I once read about a study that stated that men die of suicide more often than women. However, the study actually only accounted for completed suicide attempts. In fact, men are more likely to go through with suicides, whereas women are far more likely to attempt but not actually complete the act (this only applies within the gender binary). The reason why women don’t actually end up completing their suicides is because they attempt them in far less violent ways. According to the study, this is because women worry about family members or loved ones finding them and being traumatized by what they see. So they try less violent, and thus less final, ways—and therefore survive more often. Thinking about what an emotional load women carry every day purely because even at the end of their ropes they can’t bear the thought of upsetting other people? It breaks my heart. It makes me angry. It strengthens my conviction. Women and femmes are necessary, valid in their emotions, and strong.”
― Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

“he’s been going around telling other kids in our grade that he doesn’t like me because I’m a “fucking prude.”
― Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

“And then it happened. One of my TikToks, a video about very specific red flags in men, blew up. I declared that any man who calls The Wolf of Wall Street his favorite movie of all time, or who has an obsession with Tom Brady—not the Bucs or the Pats, just Tom Brady—should be jailed (a clear and obvious joke, but also … is it?). And it went viral.”
― Drew Afualo, Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve

“It was a life-shifting kiss. One of those that came only once in a lifetime. The kind that you didn’t want to mean more. You wanted it to be a lust-induced kiss in the dark, but you couldn’t even fool yourself. This one was everything.”
― K.A. Linde, The Wright Brother