Tres Trece

“The reason evolution bestows all intelligent life with a desire to climb higher is far more profound than more base needs, even though we still do not understand its real purpose. Mountains are universal and we are all standing at the feet of mountains.”
― Liu Cixin, Mountain

“El romanticismo patriarcal nos hace creer que el amor es fácil, una energía mágica e inagotable que surge por sí sola y se mantiene igual en el tiempo.”
― Coral Herrera Gómez, Mujeres que ya no sufren por amor: Transformando el mito romántico

“All over the world in many cultures you’ll find gender non-conforming people – those who are traditionally third gender or gender-fluid or even agender. In some of these cultures, they are not only recognized, but also revered and honored, or treated as spiritual beings. In Hawaii, one can find the mahu, those who are biologically male or female, but having a gender identity between or encompassing both masculine and feminine, and whose social role is sacred. Some Native American people are two-spirit, while South Asia has their third gender called the hijra. Other cultures recognizing a third gender are Nigeria (yan daudu) , Samoa (fa’afafine), Thailand (kathoey), Mexico (muxe), and Tonga (fakaleiti). In yet other cultures, it is socially acceptable that some third genders are those who were assigned male, but live and behave as feminine and those who were born assigned female but live and behave as masculine.”
― Michael Eric Brown, Challenging Genders: Non-Binary Experiences of Those Assigned Female at Birth

“Nuestra forma de amar es patriarcal porque aprendemos a amar bajo las normas, las creencias, los modelos, las costumbres, los mitos, las tradiciones, la moral y la ética de la cultura a la que pertenecemos. Cada cultura construye su estructura emocional y sus patrones de relación desde una ideología concreta, por eso nuestra forma de amar en Occidente es patriarcal y capitalista.”
― Coral Herrera Gómez, Mujeres que ya no sufren por amor: Transformando el mito romántico